Word: passport
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...second wife or to dismiss a spouse with the curt command: "I divorce you." In 1975 Thai women won the right to run for election as village chief or attain the rank of general in the army. But they still cannot sign a contract or apply for a passport without their husband's permission...
...Naude, now 60, was a prominent, rising churchman and Afrikaner supremacist until the 1960 Sharpeville massacre prodded his conscience. He forthwith set to work to destroy his church's theological approval of apartheid. Naude is now barred from the pulpit, ostracized, harassed by government prosecutors and denied his passport. Still, he says that being an outsider in his own society is "what God requires...
Many of the past Nobel winners who made the trip to Oslo were outraged at the Kremlin's treatment of Sakharov. Linus Pauling, the 1954 winner in chemistry who lost his U.S. passport for a while in 1951 when he was under investigation for alleged Communist activities, disclosed that he had signed a cable to the Soviet leaders asking that they change their decision about Sakharov. Said he: "I feel people should be allowed to travel...
...Passport. Getting no support from anyone else, Wilson eventually accepted a compromise. At the conference, the Common Market will speak through the voice of the Italian delegation; two other countries, Britain and Luxembourg, will be able to make comments as well, so long as they basically adhere to the overall Market position. Wilson's obstinacy, however, did gain Britain something: the Nine agreed to support a minimum price for oil, possibly $7 per bbl. The costs of producing the North Sea oil are so great that Britain feared any drop in prices would make its stormy offshore fields unprofitable...
Before settling its main dispute, the Community was able to adopt two measures symbolic of European unity. Starting in 1978, all citizens of EEC nations will carry one passport, a dark lie de vin -dregs of wine-red. There will also be direct elections that year to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, which is now composed of delegates appointed by each government. Though agreeing reluctantly to the timing of the new passport, the British, together with the Danes, warned that they might not be ready for direct elections by 1978. On that relatively small point, the others were not about...