Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gandhi argues that the Shah commission is carrying on a political vendetta. Clearly, her clumsy efforts to re-enter the political arena last week were mainly designed to reinforce that claim. Her attorneys have advised her to challenge the commission's authority to investigate her as a political leader, in the hope of gaining time for their beleaguered client. Ultimately, however, her repudiation at the polls may be followed by public exposure and disgrace...
...House lobbying on airline awards. Ford had ordered that no "interested parties" be allowed to talk to the President on international airline cases. The consumerists noted that George Busbee, Carter's successor as Governor of Georgia, had visited the White House to press home-state Delta's claim for generous treatment. Carter spokesmen contended that there was no "impropriety" because Ford's order did not apply to elected officials...
...trial, which has dragged on for over 40 days, is the first step in the process of adjudicating the Indians' claim to 11,000 acres in Mashpee land appraised at $30 million. If the judge, Walter F. Skinner, decides on January 20 to dismiss the case, the Indians face a long series of appeals that will further exacerbate the tension between the whites and the Indians in Mashpee. The Indians' lawyers insist the jury's decision is so illogical that the judge will have no recourse but to order a new trial; the defense lawyers jubilantly term the decision...
...decision brings to a close over 40 days of sessions to determine whether or not the Wamponoags of Mashpee are a tribe, the first step in trying their suit, in which they claim over 11,000 acres in Mashpee valued at $30 million...
...Wamponoags based their suit on the Indian Non-Intercourse Act of 1790, which prohibited the transfer of Indian lands without the consent of the federal government. When the Massachusetts legislature incorporated Mashpee as a town in 1870, the Indians claim it violated this law and so the land in Mashpee belongs to them...