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...Look at the houses, look at the shacks," he says. "Most likely she'd grow up, get disgusted, leave and never come back." Last week Allyssa awaited her fate wearing a layer of sweet powder. A Navajo medicine man had covered her with it during a ceremony performed to expel evil spirits. Perhaps it will protect her from the injuries of a bitter custody fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Adoption Battle over Baby K. | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

First, responsible criticism knocks the wind out of irresponsible criticism, especially those who liken Israeli soldiers shooting back at rock-throwing Palestinians to Nazis in extermination camps. Martin Peretz, editor in chief of the New Republic, suggests that those who wield corrupt analogies of Jews to Nazis seek to expel the Holocaust from memory by diminishing its significance. That alone would justify our straight talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is Israel Below Criticism? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Britain treaded more cautiously last week. London's relations with Tehran have been tense since May, when an Iranian diplomat was arrested for shoplifting. After Iranian Revolutionary Guards beat a British embassy official in response, the two countries began to expel one another's diplomats. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has not wanted to push the quarrel any further, though. Sounded out privately two weeks ago by Washington about sending minesweepers to the gulf, she politely said no. Thatcher reportedly was furious when U.S. Ambassador Charles Price formally repeated the same request, forcing her to reject the U.S. again, this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War on All Fronts | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...court in 1977 forbade East Cleveland to use a housing ordinance to force a grandmother to expel her grandson from her home. Powell delivered the judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Court: What The Justices Say It Is | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...Klarsfelds who picked up his trail -- he had disappeared for almost 40 years into the identity of a prosperous and peaceful businessman named Klaus Altmann living in Bolivia. They were the ones who managed to persuade Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government to act, to induce the Bolivian government to expel "Altmann" so that he could be returned to the country of his crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Was He Normal? Human? Poor Humanity | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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