Word: courting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iranians have shown every sign of fighting deportation. Their effort is helped by court decisions of recent years, which have made it harder for the Government to deport aliens, whatever their offense...
...that fails, he can go before a federal court. A skillful attorney can drag out proceedings for years. Says David Carliner, a leading immigration lawyer: "The Bill of Rights applies to aliens-even illegal aliens-just as much as it does to U.S. citizens...
Three Iranian students last week filed a class-action suit in Federal District Court in Washington challenging the constitutionality of the Carter deportation program on the grounds that it discriminates against one nationality group. The suit, which asks for an injunction against the program, was supported by two leftist organizations: the Socialist Workers Party and the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. The American Civil Liberties Union is expected to bring a similar suit this week. Says...
...moved on almost equal terms with their clients-Paul-César Helleu, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Anders Zorn. In England and America, the most successful of all these virtuosos was John Singer Sargent, who became to the British Empire what Velásquez had been to the Habsburg court of Madrid or Sir Anthony van Dyck to Charles I: the official portraitist par excellence, the unrivaled chronicler of male power and female beauty at the top of the social heap. Sargent paid the penalty of success after he died in 1925. Reputations like his were exactly what the English...
...week earlier to offset their own $300 million share of the loan, but the non-U.S. banks (two Swiss, one British and one Canadian) had no such recourse. Their only options were either to activate a so-called cross default clause and foreclose on the Iranian government in court for the remaining $200 million, or to refloat their share of the loan independently of the U.S. banks. Said one angry European banker: "This is a dangerous escalation of the financial war that American banks are waging against Iran...