Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister's sentiments had the full backing of Opposition Leader Michael Foot, who said that government concessions would give "sure aid to the recruitment of terrorists." Within hours of the funeral, Home Secretary William Whitelaw announced the government's other response: the intent to plug a legal loophole that had allowed Sands, a convicted felon, to stand for Parliament. Westminster wanted no repetition of the I.R.A.'s ploy when yet another by-election is called in Northern Ireland's turbulent Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, groaned with gratitude. "I have received so many gifts," said he, "I may have to open an Iowa room when I get back to Lambeth Palace in London." Runcie, 59, certainly had his hands full with the 40-lb. Berkshire maiden who seemed intent on hogging the spotlight. The gift was nothing to snoot at - as a gentleman farmer back home, Runcie oversees 60 prize Berkshires of his own. The latest addition to the Archbishop's porcine parish listened beatifically as Runcie gushed, "I love my pigs." She perked a wary swine...
...Mobil, Corporation members claim that, although they agree in principle with the ACSR's recommendation in favor of the resolution to stop the company's sales to the South African military and police, it is too far-reaching and its wording did not effectively carry out its professed intent. Even if the Corporation, as it has said it will, sends a disapproving letter to management explaining its vote, the abstention at Mobil officially registers Harvard as having no opinion regarding the practice of a company that publicly justifies its continued bulk, long-term contracts with the South African military...
Another opponent of the law, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, would like to change the act so that the Justice Department could forbid a proposed local law only if it can prove there is an intent to discriminate. As the current law was written, the department had to show only that a change would have a discriminatory effect, whether intended or not. Argues Hatch: "I do not believe a community ought to be labeled a civil rights violator unless there is some wrongful motivation on its part...
Gerald Jones, chief of the Justice Department's voting rights section, feels that proving such motives would be impossible. Says he: "We're not dealing with dummies. They're not about to be so blatant that you can trace intent...