Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small elite group of men and women are wheedling, cajoling, flattering and threatening in an effort to reach one another's minds. Rarely has the international struggle for influence grown so intricate, with religious, legal, family, political, economic, humanistic and military considerations so delicately mixed. We seek to dissuade some leaders from doing certain things, to persuade others to act, a ritual as old as civilization but raised now to the speed of electronic signals and extended to every argument that can be reached by TV cameras...
...Star Ranch was a legal brothel, and Fran York, its madam for the past eight years, not only ran one of the best little whorehouses in Nye County but was a highly respected member of the community. She helped buy uniforms for the local high school band, she regularly took out an ad in the high school yearbook, and she made donations to the Beatty volunteer fire department. "She's always the first one out there to help," says Benefit Organizer Helen Terry. Adds V.F.W. Member Norm Martindale: "The benefit is not for Fran's Star Ranch...
...biracial Salisbury regime, the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance and the British government. Meeting at London's Lancaster House under the skillful chairmanship of British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the negotiators had hammered out important agreements on a new majority-rule constitution and a transitional plan leading to legal independence. A full cease-fire agreement, however, continued to elude the negotiators. The gamble was to send Soames into Salisbury without...
DIED. Carlo Schmid, 83, grand old man of West Germany's Social Democratic Party; of cancer, in Bonn. After serving as a legal adviser in the German military government in France during World War II, the portly law and political science scholar was active in state government and emerged as one of the founders of the German Federal Republic. In 1948 he headed his party's delegation to the parliamentary council that drafted the nation's Basic Law. A year later he was elected a charter member of the Bundestag and served as its Vice President...
...size of Schwartz's fee troubled many Bostonians. A transit authority spokesman noted that Boeing Vertol -and not the M.B.T.A.-had to pay the legal bill. "An outrage," countered influential State Representative Barney Frank. "The size of the fee had to have some effect on the size of the settlement...