Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better deal on Taiwan. Said Hatch: "All he had to do was stand fast. Mainland China needs this relationship more than the U.S. does." Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater accused Carter of having committed "one of the most cowardly" presidential acts in history and threatened to sue him in court on the questionable ground that a President cannot cancel a treaty without the Senate's approval. Liberal Republican Jacob Javits of New York complained that Carter had not sought the advice of Congress before making his decision?especially since the House and Senate passed a resolution this year demanding just such...
That did not please Summers, by then a law student. She filed a civil suit against Polumbo in 1975, alleging both physical and emotional wounds. A court awarded her $12,000 in damages, but Polumbo did not pay. So Summers' attorney invoked a rarely used 1842 Connecticut statute that allows the indefinite imprisonment of a wrongdoer who has not paid his damages, as long as the creditor pays the prisoner's upkeep. For twelve days Summers kept her attacker locked in the Hartford jail, a revenge that cost...
Last week a Connecticut judge freed Polumbo until the court can decide whether the jail-'em-yourself law is constitutional. "If a woman can be attacked, take her assailant to trial and come away emptyhanded, women will be discouraged from going to court," says Summers, now working as a lawyer in Hartford. "I wanted to show assault victims that there is a legal remedy." The message may be getting through. A Connecticut women's group has begun passing out flyers reading, "For one dollar an hour you can keep a rapist in jail...
...heritage, Roots, won him a Pulitzer Prize, $2.6 million in hard-cover revenues alone, and his share of a much acclaimed television series. But Harold Courlander, 70, a white novelist living in Bethesda, Md., believed the book had more roots than Haley was willing to acknowledge. In Federal District Court in Manhattan, he accused Haley of plagiarizing passages from his 1967 book, The African. Courlander demanded that Haley turn over to him more than half the profits from Roots...
...gambling casino and a TV station, and we'll register ships." He also hints at tax-free companies and Swiss-style secret bank accounts. What if the U.S. and Mexico interfere, as they surely will? "I'll take it right to the World Court," says Williams. "It takes them 20 years to rule on anything, and if worst comes to worst, I'll have my country for 20 years...