Word: meriam
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...taken a very long time to drag the Australian courts and government into admitting that the Aborigines owned their land before white arrival--that the doctrine of terra nullius (no- man's-land) was legally invalid. This finally happened in 1992, when Eddie Mabo, a member of the Meriam clan on the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait off northern Australia, successfully argued before the high court that his people had been there before the whites and had never given up their ancient rights of ownership. This was the first "native title" victory in Australian...
...Jason Johnson, 25, met Meriam Al-Khalifa, 19, in a shopping mall last year during his tour of duty in Bahrain, a tiny country off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Their love became so strong - and so forbidden - that Al-Khalifa was confined to her house; she contacted Johnson through secret letters. Then last November, when his tour was over, the couple sneaked out of Bahrain on a commercial jet with Al-Khalifa disguised as a Marine, her hair tucked into a New York Yankees baseball cap. They landed in Chicago, only to meet the stateside heavies: the Immigration...