Word: polygamist
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...Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, explains: "We have always accepted that Moslems can have four wives, and tribalists can have ten or 20. But if I should take a second wife, I could be prosecuted. Yet the police constable who arrested me might be a polygamist. The prosecutor might be a polygamist, as well as the magistrate who sentenced me to four years at hard labor. This is ridiculous." Under the new proposals, said Nyerere, "It will be between a man and his wife...
There is no reason to believe, however, that the House is justified in establishing ad hoc, and unspecified, requirements each time it considers barring a member-elect. When the Senate was debating the exclusion of a Utah polygamist, Sen. Knox of Pennsylvania maintained that moral qualifications should remain the province of the electorate, as it expresses itself at the polls, and insisted that Congress restrict itself to objective criteria. But Congress has excluded such unpopular personages as the polygamist; Victor Berger, a Wisconsin Socialist opposed to American participation in World War I; and assorted sympathizers with the South during...
...delight how feelings are ground small in the legal machinery. A lawyer has the best line: "But you have to have grounds for divorce! Drugs, drink, television . . ." The Single Woman (written by Marcel Aymé) describes with sly wit a major calamity in the career of a professional polygamist: he falls in love...
...sons of a polygamist chief, Nyerere attended Uganda's Makarere College, where he was baptized a Roman Catholic. Later he took a master's in history and economics from Edinburgh University, returned to the bush to teach in a mission school. By his fiery oratory, he soon welded Tanganyika's 113 politically inarticulate tribes into the monolithic Tanganyika African National Union party. Unlike the Mau Mau in adjoining Kenya, Nyerere has modified his racist stand, now insists: "The struggle against colonialism must not be confused with racialism. Both the color of a man's skin...
...ailing King of Nepal, Makarajadhiraja Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur, 48, who with a name like that deserves to have (and has) two Queens, got official word that he will be welcome in the U.S. Polygamist Tribhubana, in Switzerland for repairs on his heart, had earlier mentioned that he might go to the U.S. for further treatment. A Zurich busybody started an international ruckus by warning a royal aide that U.S. immigration laws would prevent the King and his wives from so much as getting off the boat. After a chorus of hospitable noises arose from the U.S. State Department...