Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kranc, a Cambridge resident who returned from the Soviet Union a week ago after a 10-day visit with refuseniks in Moscow, Kiev and Kishinev, reported that Vladimir Tsukerman, one of the six, had been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment until after the Madrid Conference, because he refused to obey the KGB's orders that he call off his hunger strike...
...flurry of excitement. Led by Archbishop John R. Quinn, president of the U.S. hierarchy, a number of prelates from Western Europe, Canada and the U.S. baldly pointed out that large numbers of good Catholics simply do not understand the ban on birth control and are unwilling to obey it. But no one at the synod questioned Paul VI's teaching on birth control. And it soon became clear that many bishops in non-Western parts of the world take a dim view of contraception. Social-action liberal bishops from Brazil and other Third World nations spoke with special vehemence...
...happily signs away her freedom to Uncle Sam and the irony gets so thick you could cut it with a bayonet. The makers of Private Benjamin don't seem to realize that the military replaces marriage as the oppressive force in Judy's life. She swears to honor and obey the Army just as she made those same vows to her two husbands. Instead of mistreatment from someone she loves, Judy receives abuse--physical and mental--from a bunch of strangers in green uniforms. She's shoved, almost head-first, out of a bus; she's pummeled by a soldier...
...collection plate that the court will tamper with the church's tax status. But Lawrence Lader, president of the plaintiff Abortion Rights Mobilization, suggests that the suit could have a restraining effect anyway. As Lader puts it, "I hope this frightens people enough to make them obey the law." More sobering than the suit, perhaps, were the results at the ballot box: Frank, Shannon and McGovern all won their primaries...
...page platform released by Anderson promises "an untraditional program that responds to new challenges in new ways." Among them: a set of tax rewards for businesses and workers that obey wage-price guidelines, and tax penalties for those who break them; exempting newly hired workers and their bosses from Social Security taxes for several months in order to boost employment...