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...Call it the Battle of San Clemente and give the edge to the goats over the Navy. The strange struggle began in 1973 when the Navy started to deport the wild goat population from the small island of San Clemente, located off the coast of Southern California, that it uses for target practice. The reason, according to the Navy, was that the goats were nibbling their way through the island's four endangered plants (the bushmallow, broom, larkspur and paintbrush...
...Israeli official: "If the Egyptians do not initial the draft we will settle down and wait. What will the U.S. and Sadat do? Deport...
...almost sure to win. How could a corporation give non-whites the right to strike in any effective form when it would be illegal for them to gather at once or hold a picket or demonstration? And even if corporations respected a strike, the government could deport the strikers to their Bantustans and quickly end the strike...
...government turned Townley over hoping he would not talk. Pinochet would like to make the assassination look like it was the work of Patria y Libertad so that he can dissociate himself from Townley and at the same time discredit Leigh, Moffitt says, adding that Pinochet was forced to deport Townley because he couldn't deny that Townley was issued an official passport. An interesting sidelight Moffitt mentions is a subscandal involving Guillermo Ossorio, the man who issued the passports to Townley and Larios. Ossorio died on October 21, 1977, after last being seen with Contreras, the former head...
...settlements. The present misunderstanding apparently started last summer when State Department legal experts began giving some credence to Israeli arguments that settlements within existing army camps located on occupied territory are not illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention; it says that "the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." Thereafter, on Oct. 2, the Begin government authorized the first of nine new settlements. The problem lies in the fact that the last four of these settlements were placed in army "camps" that had been created only...