Word: commonwealth
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KENYA'S Asians are caught in a racial squeeze play: Black Africa wants them out and White Britain refuses to let them in. The panicked scramble to get to England before last month's passage of Britain's Commonwealth Immigration Act left the Asians embittered and confused, created havoc in Kenya's economy, and doomed prospects for good race relations within Britain. All three races--Brown, Black, and White--are responsible for the crisis...
Following an 8-3 Terrier triumph three Decembers ago at Walter Brown Arena O'Callahan explained the choice of Commonwealth Avenue instead of Soldiers Field Road as the site of his hockey education. "Harvard was trying to sell me on that education stuff," the then first-year defenseman from Charlestown said, "but I wasn't buying. I was looking for the best hockey around, and I guess this proves I found...
...should also be pointed out that in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in practice, it takes two physicians to commit a person to a mental hospital for a ten day period of observation--one to fill out the Section 79 (Request for Observation) paper and the other to accept it. A physician may not request observation of a person at a hospital where he is employed and this provides a double check for the person committed for observation. While in practice most Section 79 papers are accepted by the admitting physician this is by no means always true...
...nchez underground for a time. During last summer's plebiscite campaign over Puerto Rico's legal status, Muñoz, now 70 and in semi-retirement as a senator, came back into the arena to marshal the P.D.P.'s successful fight to keep Puerto Rico a commonwealth...
...remarriage in September, Sánchez, 55, regained his confidence. By January, he prepared a visionary message to the legislature that had all the earmarks of a re-election platform. But by the time he delivered it, Senator Muñoz had already given an unofficial state-of-the-commonwealth speech in which he spoke approvingly of Sánchez's plans to retire. The challenge to Sánchez was clear...