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When Concha's parents refused to allow the match on religious grounds, Rezanov returned to Russia, vowing: "I shall wring consent from my Tsar, the Pope, your father!" But on the homeward trek across Siberia, the nobleman died on the icy steppes, causing his disconsolate Concha to become "San Francisco's first...
...stipulated by the U.S.-Iran agreement. The plaintiff in the case, Dames & Moore, a California engineering firm, was one of some 450 companies seeking a total of $4 billion in breach-of-contract suits against Iran. Contesting the President's authority to make the hostage deal without the consent of Congress, Dames & Moore argued that its provisions represented an unconstitutional "taking" of their property without "just compensation," as required by the Fifth Amendment...
...under way-just as Likud edged ahead of Labor in one poll, 34% to 33%, after trailing, 14% to 44%, in January. To counter the summit as best it could, the Labor Party scheduled a Knesset debate on Begin's recently revealed 1978 commitment, taken without parliamentary consent, to commit Israel's air force to help Lebanon's right-wing Christians in the event of attack by Syrian airpower. The debate grew so heated at one point that Labor Opposition Member Michael Harish jumped from his seat and yelled at Begin, "You are lying to the Knesset...
...expected a sympathy vote for the wounded Pope, the voters in 97.5% Roman Catholic Italy turned down the restricting referendum by a 2-to-1 margin. The result leaves intact Italy's controversial three-year-old law that allows women over 18-and minors with the consent of parents -to receive abortions at state expense during the first 90 days of pregnancy. Currently, there are about 200,000 such legal operations every year, and the rate is climbing; there are also an estimated 600,000 illegal abortions annually, mostly because many approved clinics bow to church opposition and refuse...
...visit to the Sotto il Monte birthplace of Pope John XXIII. Reaffirming a church statement calling for abortion laws "to be overcome with all legitimate means," he repeated his view that "procured abortion is the killing of an innocent creature. No one can have an attitude of pliant consent or passivity in the face of abortion...