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...available. Aware of South Africa's needs, a group of high-seas swindlers allegedly went to work. The prime suspect is Soudan. A resident of Houston, the 36-year-old Lebanese expatriate was an insurance agent and would-be oil broker who last October set up a one-man business called the Oxford Shipping Co. In November, using $11.5 million that he reportedly claimed later was a legacy from his deceased father, Soudan bought a ten-year-old Swedish VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) that had previously been known as South Sun and Sea Sovereign. Soudan rechristened...
...Tigers, who trailed during the entire game, refused to just lay down and die. Spunky guard Ellen Tomassiewize streaked down the court for repeated breakaway buckets, terrorized the Crimson offense with a one-man press performance, and was finally ousted from the game with a technical foul for venting her anger on the surly referee...
Douglas had a way of cutting straight through legalisms to tackle practical problems. In decisions like those in the desegregation and one-man, one-vote cases, Douglas and other liberal activists on the Warren court discarded limiting precedents and gave real meaning to the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment. "He did not write for the law school professors," remarked one of his admiring clerks; law professors, in fact, scolded him for sloppiness and sometimes for indifference to law in drafting his opinions. Douglas was also criticized by his own colleague Justice Felix Frankfurter for disregarding...
...unfair advantage to states where they are most abundant: California, New York, Florida, Texas. Last month the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonprofit organization working to end illegal immigration, filed a lawsuit charging that including illegal aliens in the census violates the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision...
...cannot compare them with the Republic of South Africa. South West Africa does not belong to the Republic of South Africa. We were only the mandatory force. We accepted that if Rhodesia wants to become a new state on the principle of one-man, one-vote, we won't object to it because we aren't poking our noses into the affairs of Rhodesia. We never prescribe to Rhodesia what she should do. We help to create peaceful conditions in which they can come to terms with other international states who want us to cooperate...