Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flaming feminism that most antagonized the traditionalist Vietnamese. In 1956 she was elected to the National Assembly, immediately began a campaign to upgrade the status of Vietnamese women, who had no legal rights and could be dis carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and?except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...
...insisted on a full-scale referendum in Sarawak and North Borneo before Malaysia comes into existence, to "ascertain" whether these territories really want the federation. They plainly do, but Sukarno just wanted to throw his weight around. He was supported, halfheartedly, by Macapagal, since the Philippines has a shadowy legal claim to certain parts of North Borneo and a referendum would offer a face-saving way of abandoning the claim...
...announcement was terse, delivered through the family lawyer: "Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II have decided on a legal separation. They have Entered into the usual form of separation." Since both are Roman Catholics (he joined the church before their 1940 marriage), the separation will be a divorce in everything but name. Under the settlement, say friends, Mrs. Ford will live in New York with the three children (Charlotte, 22, Anne, 20, Edsel, 14); Henry will stay on in Grosse Pointe Farms...
...pictures are all unsigned, which means that Rouault considered them unfinished. It was over this point that Rouault in 1947 made legal history in France by winning a suit against the heirs of his dealer, Ambroise Vollard, for the return of hundreds of canvases that Rouault claimed were still his property because he never signed them. The court ruled in the artist's favor, declaring that any creator could decide when a creation was finished or not. The next year, to prove that there was no material motive in his fight, Rouault, 77 at the time, burned...
...case against the contracts is that Frondizi was in such a rush to expand oil output that he signed some sour deals and brushed aside legal niceties. His legislature never ratified the contracts, which oblige Y.P.F. to buy the oil that the foreign contractors produce. Critics also argue that Y.P.F.'s deals involved excessive prices...