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...invitation from Phnom-Penh to attack the Communist bases in Cambodia. The omission meant that Washington was openly violating the Geneva accord of 1954 (which it did not sign but has repeatedly claimed to respect), guaranteeing Cambodian neutrality. Still, there is no doubt that the U.S. obtained tacit consent. Cambodia's Foreign Minister, Yem Sambour, said it all when he registered the government's feeble objection. "In principle," he said with a broad smile, "we must protest the action...
...Senators who have suggested that the President did not have the power to make such a decision are just wrong, but on the other hand, the President is wrong if he continues to wage war without the consent of Congress," he said...
...have participated to date, very few have come to trial. We have lost only two cases, and both of these are now on appeal. Fifteen cases have been brought to a successful conclusion by the entry of an injunction or similar court order against the defendant, either by consent of the parties or after trial. The court orders we have secured usually require the defendants not only to stop discrimination but also to take significant affirmative steps to correct the effects of the past, including solicitation of Negroes, advertising in the black press, inclusion of biracial groups in advertising, requiring...
Installment Plan. The plan specifies that a man may take a second wife if his first wife gives her consent. Partly to ensure that the consent will be freely given, it forbids either spouse from inflicting corporal punishment on the other. It also ends child marriage by raising the wedding age to 18 for men and to 15 for women and sets up village conciliation boards for mending broken marriages. Such red tape will deprive the Moslem male of his traditional right to shed a wife simply by declaring "I divorce thee" three times. The plan would not abolish...
...months the marriage proposals were heatedly debated throughout Tanzania. Some women demanded that, in the name of equality, they be allowed to take more than one husband. Christians denounced the provision permitting polygamy. Moslems quarreled with the requirement that a first wife must consent to her husband's taking another. A male legislator said of the proposed ban on corporal punishment: "Some women never feel satisfied with their husbands' love if they are not beaten...