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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Human Rights, which White terms "a treaty more honored in the breach than anything else." Amnesty groups write letters to ministers and other key figures in the governments of their adopted prisoners. White says that although officials rarely reply the first time. Amnesty keeps pestering them "until the file on a particular prisoner has grown so fat that they cannot afford to ignore it." White mentions that it is more effective to be "courteous, rational, and apolitical" than overtly antagonistic to governments. In pleading a prisoner's case. Amnesty often reminds a country of a constitution that...
When there is a competitive examination, the city manager must appoint the highest man on the list or file a statement of reasons why he was not promoted, Brian McMeninum, attorney for Hussey, said yesterday...
...environmental impact laws provide an excellent means for the opposition small or large, to defeat the project by tying it up in the courts. Edison has already gone on record saying it will file suit if MASCO receives its project approval. The battle may go on for so long that the institutions would again settle for compromise, It is odd that a decision to build or not to build should be settled in the courts, when judges have the least amount of expertise in terms of environmental danger. But the environmental laws give them that power...
That explanation did not satisfy Congressman John Conyers, a Democrat from Detroit and one of the 75 on file. "I certainly wasn't one of those who cooperated with the CIA in any way," he said. When he had asked for his own file, Conyers discovered that it consisted entirely of newspaper clippings...
...charts for any length of time without twanging chords that reverberate in the teen-age psyche. What sets Elton apart is the fact that his appeal knows no demographic limits. Said British Rock Promoter Mel Bush, watching a sellout crowd of 75,000 file out of London's Wembley Stadium after John's appearance there a fortnight ago: "Elton's appeal is across the board. We had heads, hippies, film stars, lords and ladies here today." Says the star of the huge audiences he regularly attracts: "I can see four or five rows when...