Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just five days after its ruling on the "reverse discrimination" complaint of the medical school applicant Allan Bakke, the Supreme Court last week turned to the no less controversial issue of affirmative action in the field of employment. In contrast to the Bakke decision, in which six Justices filled 154 pages with occasionally passionate legal arguments, the court simply let stand-without explanation-a lower-court ruling that approved numerical goals for employment and promotion of minorities and women...
...Soviet move against the two newsmen, the New York Times's Craig R. Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold D. Piper, was unwarranted and unprecedented. The complaint charged them with slander in their coverage in May of Dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia's purported confession of anti-Soviet activities, even though their dispatches appeared only...
...explosion sounded like a belated, booming finale to the fireworks display at the Palace of Versailles. Thus, when an agitated watchman telephoned the local police station one night last week, the flics at first assumed that his report of a bomb blast was just another complaint by an angry Versailles resident about the racket over at the chateau. Earlier that evening, 50,000 people had trekked out to the magnificent 17th century palace-home of France's royal court until the revolution of 1789-for a fireworks festival celebrating the arrival of summer. While Roman candles and rockets cannonaded...
...point. Gustavo Curtis, the former chief of Beatrice Foods in Colombia who was held by terrorists for eight months, is suing his company for $185 million. His complaint: though the firm had had prior indications that he would be a terrorist target, Beatrice Foods treated his disappearance as a hoax at first, then dawdled over negotiating his release, condemning him and his family to a long, anxiety-laden ordeal...
...proposals of its own. Indeed, while Washington has some ideas ready, no "U.S. plan" exists at present. Instead, the Carter Administration maneuvered to keep peace prospects alive by getting Sadat to formulate his own West Bank proposal, either alone or with King Hussein. This would counter Jerusalem's complaint that nobody else has come up with a concrete proposal for the West Bank, and it would get the two sides talking again. Later on it could pave the way for the U.S. to propose a compromise formula without appearing to be trying to impose a solution. Last week...