Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Male delegates talked interminably about the value of tradition. Just when Mme. Ngo thought she had won them over in committee, they would wriggle free. "Really," complained Mme. Ngo, "men change their minds much more easily than women." But gradually, in an Assembly tightly controlled by her brother-in-law, the opposition melted, and last week the Family Bill became the law of the land...
...Asian nation it was a surprising law, and in some respects reflected the alien Western influence of Roman Catholic teaching (she and Diem are Catholics, while about 75% of the people are Buddhist). From now on, any Vietnamese wife will be free to practice a profession, even it her husband says no. She will not have to marry against her will or live with her in-laws. Her husband will no longer be able to be unfaithful with impunity, nor will he be allowed to take his bastard children into the house as if they were legitimate, or repudiate...
...Club, with chic girls, matronly overseers and a consulting physician, catered to U.S. tourists. Cheaper cribs along Virtues Street enticed Cubans. There were 10,000 harlots and as many panderers. Payoffs from prostitution and gambling ran into the millions and were efficiently organized, e.g., Batista's brother-in-law had charge of slot machines...
...ship from Cuba's eastern coast, bound east to invade Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic, idealistic Fidel Castro was aboard. Cuban gunboats intercepted the rebels and Castro swam three miles to shore, his Tommy gun still on his back. He turned to law, defended a few friends in political trouble, a few farmers evicted from their plots; he honeymooned in New York with his bride Mirtha. fathered a son named Fidel, settled down in Havana. At 2:43 on the morning of March 10, 1952. Fulgencio Batista-who had been Cuba's behind-the-scenes...
...sold his law books and car, recruited his brother Raul and 150-odd friends, raised $20,000 for guns and contraband army uniforms. At dawn on July 26. 1953, Fidel Castro led a column of 13 cars to the walls of Santiago's bristling Moncada barracks, a yellow stone pile where 1,000 Batista troops lay sleeping. A suspicious Jeep patrol came up. Castro, then 26, stepped out, raised his twelve-gauge shotgun and shot his first man. "That was the mistake," he recalls. "I had told them all to do what I did, and they all opened fire...