Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French who had manipulated his ouster while he was away in Libya, flew to a military airport outside Paris, where he begged admittance to the country. He argued that since he had served in the French colonial army, even earning the Croix de guerre, he was a French citizen. Government officials said no, and he was flown back to Africa in a French-owned DC-8 to asylum in the Ivory Coast. That decision was deplored by a number of French jurists, who insisted that Bokassa should have been admitted and tried for his crimes under French...
Long the fat matron of Montreal's once powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that...
...scriptwriter might have composed it. One day after his arrest, by pure coincidence, the California Supreme Court let stand a San Diego appellate court's ruling that police use of such devices as the Bushnell Spacemaster to gather evidence is unconstitutional, an Orwellian breach of a citizen's right to privacy. Thus Halvonik and his wife could be acquitted, leaving him free either to stay on the bench or to return to private practice and defend exactly the kind of case in which he is now so messily involved...
...News. Instead, you might spy him in the back corridors of Capitol Hill, where he is respected as co-chair of the mighty Business Roundtable lobby. His 62-year-old countenance is also familiar in Greenwich, Ct., where his well-to-do neighbors doubtless regard him as an upstanding citizen, hard-working and proud of his son and daughter. Yet in his office in nearby Fairfield, Jones toils quietly as the chief executive of General Electric--a firm that profits from the nation's traffic in nuclear power...
...grass-roots antinuclear groups throughout New England, united in calling for an end to the Seabrook plant and the shutdown of nuclear plants in New England and across the nation. Sharing a common perception that the nuclear regulatory process had become a farce, Clamshell concluded that only direct citizen action could stop nuclear power...