Word: civilizations
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That did not please Summers, by then a law student. She filed a civil suit against Polumbo in 1975, alleging both physical and emotional wounds. A court awarded her $12,000 in damages, but Polumbo did not pay. So Summers' attorney invoked a rarely used 1842 Connecticut statute that allows the indefinite imprisonment of a wrongdoer who has not paid his damages, as long as the creditor pays the prisoner's upkeep. For twelve days Summers kept her attacker locked in the Hartford jail, a revenge that cost...
Serious and chronic food shortages are only the most visible failing of the avowedly Marxist regime that wrested control of Angola from the confusion of independence and civil war two years ago. A dogmatic and strongly centralized government was imposed by the MPLA in an attempt to construct a multiracial egalitarian society out of the rubble of four centuries of Portuguese rule. Now, after 37 months of trial and error in which almost every sector of the economy showed alarming declines, Neto is steering Angola toward a more practical course. But it is not easy...
...Salvador de Madariaga, 92, erudite, witty, prolific man of letters, interpreter of Spanish culture and diplomat; in Locarno, Switzerland. When King Alfonso XIII abdicated in 1931, Madariaga became the Spanish Republic's first Ambassador to the U.S. and its delegate to the League of Nations. After the Spanish Civil War, he became an energetic opponent of Franco, living in England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar...
...employee at the Gramercy, La., plant of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. who had been rejected by a craft training program that reserved half its places for minorities. Weber sued Kaiser and his union, the United Steelworkers, and won: two federal courts ruled that under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Kaiser cannot use racial quotas without proof that it discriminated in the past...
DEREGULATION. Government regulation of specific industries and the spread of costly safety, antipollution and other rules that all industries must obey became widely recognized this year as a powerful inflationary force. In 1978 the Civil Aeronautics Board successfully freed air fares. The Interstate Commerce Commission now proposes to make entry into the trucking business much easier for new operators and to end the rate fixing by conferences of truckers. Carter has pledged to make environmental and safety regulation less costly and appointed an interagency council to comb out overlapping and contradictory rules. Unfortunately, the council is made...