Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grudging Consent. It was up to Makarios to 1) yield to the Turkish threat, 2) try to negotiate some concession in return for yielding, or 3) stand pat in the hope that Turkey was bluffing or would be dissuaded by the U.S. or through fear of Russian and Greek intervention...
...utilities commission reserved decision, but McDaniel has grounds for hope. One is a commission promise to investigate the matter further. Another is the Supreme Court's 1951 decision (Breard v. Alexandria) upholding local laws against door-to-door peddling without the homeowner's consent. Said the court: "Opportunists for private gain cannot be permitted to arm themselves with an acceptable principle, such as that of a right to work, a privilege to engage in interstate commerce, or a free press, and proceed to use it as an iron standard to smooth their path by crushing the living rights...
Through one of her senior deacons, the prophetess notified Charles Stacey, a white attorney practicing in Ndola, that she was ready to give herself up -if the government guaranteed her fair treatment. Delighted, Stacey immediately won Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda's consent. One afternoon last week, in a remote mud-hut hideout in the north, Alice Lenshina said farewell to 200 hymn-singing tribesmen, climbed into a Land Rover, and with Stacey at her side, was driven off to jail...
...Thimayya, to U.S. Ambassador Taylor G. Belcher, and then going his own way. He seemed unperturbed by the blast from Athens, where Greece's Premier George Papandreou accused him of launching the drive against Kokkina in violation of a firm promise not to attack without Greek knowledge and consent. When the Greek army officer commanding Makarios' National Guard resigned for the same reason. Makarios simply appointed in his place General George Grivas, the tough old resistance fighter who led the four-year guerrilla war against the British...
Section 71 of New York State's General Municipal Law says in part: "A city or county shall be liable to a person whose property is destroyed or injured therein by a mob or riot, if the consent or negligence of such person did not contribute to such destruction or injury, and such person shall have used all reasonable diligence to prevent such damage...