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...effect, the change has hardly been visible because in most Yale colleges dress rules have not been enforced for several years. "It's a de facto, rather than a de jure, decision," said one Yale student...
...three tribal states--Yoruba West, Hausa North, and Ibo East. The largest group of refugees were 1.8 million Ibos from the North, many badly injured. Enraged, the Ibos demanded federal compensation of the injured and homeless. To prevent a repitition of the atrocities, they also called for the de jure recognition of Nigeria's partition--in the form of a confederation of almost autonomous states. They threatened to secede if the Federal Government did not agree...
...everyone expected to hear from was mysteriously silent. Manolo Ray, leader of the JURE exile group, had promised to be inside Cuba reorganizing the anti-Castro underground by May 20, Cuba's Independence Day. On the 16th, Miami monitors picked up a brief broadcast purporting to be from Cuba: "This is Ray speaking to all Cubans from free territory." But Ray's lieutenants said it was not Ray's voice. On the 20th, there was nothing but silence from Ray's group. Was their leader in Cuba? A spokesman merely smiled...
Under Blau's leadership, the Neturei Karta sided with the British and the Arabs against Israel's struggle for independence, and it now holds that Jerusalem is an extraterritorial city under U.N. jurisdiction. "I do not recognize Israel de jure or de facto," says Blau. "The worst part of the Jewish state is that what all the nations of the world did not succeed in doing during the years of exile, Israel is now doing. The gentiles wanted to sever Jews from the Torah but did not succeed. Zionists are now succeeding. It is heresy...
...thought, got a city-wide vote to build a fine new Lincoln on the same spot. Negro parents countered with a federal suit on then-novel grounds: it is just as unconstitutional to compel Negroes to attend a de facto segregated school in the North as a de jure segregated school in the South...