Word: claiming
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...Militancy. Where Andrus may most have to display his compassion and conscience is in coping with the land claims and welfare of the sadly neglected native Americans. About a million strong, with the highest birthrate in the U.S., the Indians are ravaged by illness, alcoholism and despair. Many are also affected by a new militancy. In Maine, the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes have laid claim to 2.5 million acres of land−two-thirds of the state. Claims are pending against other tracts within the original 13 colonies. Dealing with this and other demands for native justice will require...
That oft-told Lisbon wheeze reflected widespread doubts about how long the government of Socialist Premier Mario Scares could stay in office. Last week, though, the Socialists-like Mark Twain-could claim that reports of their demise had been greatly exaggerated. In crucial balloting for 45,000 local officials and mayoralties, the Socialists confounded their political opponents and, in spite of a divisive intraparty fight, won what amounted to a qualified vote of confidence for Scares...
Times editors insist that they did not set out to do an exposé of the Long Beach paper. They dispatched Reporters George Reasons and Mike Goodman to the city six months ago, they claim, solely to investigate a rash of municipal scandals and fiscal problems. "The situation we found was a surprise to all of us," says Times Editor William Thomas. "But [the paper] was a natural focus, so we wrote it that way. I can say that I have never seen a story quite like this...
...throughout the 19th century, our greatest achievements came through efforts marked by both moral vision and practical purpose. Theodore Roosevelt noted that long before Jefferson negotiated an end to the French claim to Louisiana, that and other foreign claims had been effectively undermined by the great western movement of Americans and the free communities they quickly founded. But the consolidation of their pioneering achievements was made possible by those negotiations and by subsequent diplomatic successes. The annexation of Florida, the Oregon boundary settlement with Great Britain, the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the Gadsden Purchase, the purchase of Alaska from Russia...
...Supreme Court's ruling was an elaboration of its decision in a 1974 case, rejecting a similar claim that a California state program that excluded pregnancy compensation was a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Civil liberties lawyers believed, however, that regardless of any constitutional issue, the Civil Rights Act's specific ban on sex discrimination in employment practices would cover pregnancy. Not so, the Supreme Court ruled last week...