Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal capture of Owerri two weeks ago, Nigeria's civil war entered a new and perhaps final phase. Secessionist Biafra, now less than one-tenth its original size, holds but one important town: Umuahia. Should it fall, Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would lose his last physical claim on breakaway statehood and be forced, if he is still able, to carry on his fight for Biafra's Ibo people from the jungle. As it advanced slowly but steadily on Umuahia last week, TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes joined Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando division. His report...
...most people can buy enough to live on. But no one is interested in buying anything, outside of subsistence goods, except land. Nobody has respect for the Greek currency. Many people said they were hoarding British Gold Pounds for the period after the regime. The junta's claim that the tourist trade was "much better in 1968 than in the previous year" is true but there still aren't nearly as many tourists as before the revolution...
...reservists argue that Congress exceeded its constitutional authority in 1966 when it passed a law authorizing the President to mobilize part of the Ready Reserve when there was no national emergency or formal declaration of war by Congress. Even if the law is not unconstitutional, the protesters claim that they are not covered by it because they joined the Reserves before it was passed...
...choose to serve if they wish to. By raising the juror's fee from $10 to $20 a day (and $16 a night for those who travel long distances and must stay overnight), the courts also implied that they would no longer excuse many persons who claim that jury duty is a financial burden. Even women have lost some of the special status. It used to be enough to claim that being away from the family was a hardship. Now, only women who have small children or qualify for some other exemption will be able to avoid jury duty...
...from a rubber stamp for student demands, and its members made some fundamental revisions in the course before they approved it. Most important was the shift in concept from a Cleaver-dominated course (Cleaver continued to claim "It's going to be my course") to a forum, in which Cleaver's lectures would be criticized and analyzed by other professors in section meetings...