Word: commonwealth
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...stores and hopes to sell nationwide by summer. Says Vice President Robert Allen: "American consumers can make a clear choice between buying American and buying something else." But Star-Kist can also claim to be selling American tuna, since some of its production is packed in Puerto Rico--a commonwealth that sends a nonvoting Representative to Congress--and in the U.S. territory of American Samoa...
...afraid? Precisely because he is a man of good will, who wants to be sincere. His casuistical, self congratulatory position on South Africa is something that he hates because he knows its moral flimsiness. He despises the racism which he finds himself standing with. He sees that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the city of Boston, U. Mass., Smith, and Hampshire colleges have all comfortably divested. Bok is stuck, afraid to step outside and see the tragedy he is building himself into...
City officials will present Cambridge's case to a single justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court--the highest judicial authority in the Commonwealth--this Wednesday so that the full court may take up the matter and "short-circuit the lengthy appeals process," Cambridge City Solicitor Russell B. Highley said last night...
...Virginia Commonwealth 81, Marshall...
...real objective of Administration policy, said Shultz in a speech in San Francisco on Friday before the Commonwealth Club of California, is not to overthrow the Sandinistas but to modify their behavior. The Administration wants to force the Sandinistas to make four major concessions: to stop serving as a Soviet surrogate and expel the Soviet and Cuban advisers at present in the country; to reduce the size of their armed forces, now numbering more than 100,000, to the size of those in neighboring countries (18,000 in Honduras, 49,000 in El Salvador); to "absolutely and definitively stop their...