Word: proof
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They may marry among themselves in civil ceremonies. A Catholic who wants to marry a Protestant must first get permission for a civil ceremony, and he can get this permission only by furnishing proof that he is no longer a practicing Catholic. The proof consists of a signed declaration submitted to a justice of the peace, but the local bishop can simply refuse to accept the declaration as valid, and the wedding is off. There have been some cases of priests who left the church and tried to marry Protestants (one notable example: the late, reactionary Cardinal Segura...
...criminals," said Lawyer Castro, his military tribunals had been forced to sentence them to death on "moral conviction," because "legal proof" is impossible to obtain. Last week 31 more of the morally convicted died before the revolutionary firing squads, sending the overall total...
Inside the tinderbox building one boy woke as the flames rolled across the fiberboard ceiling, and cried out the alarm. Flinging themselves against the windows, some of the youngsters slashed their heads and arms on broken glass, tore frantically at the "escape-proof" steel mesh between them and safety. While others pushed at him in terror, Charley Meadows, 16-year-old night sergeant for the inmates, at last broke through one window guard, and another gave way to the boys' desperate strength. Through the two openings, 48 escaped. By the time the fire trucks arrived, the building had caved...
Message to Ike. Pictures of Dap Chhuon's bleeding body were posted in triumph on the trees lining Pnompenh's avenues, and Sihanouk flew a delegation of foreign diplomats into Siemréap to show them the "proof" of a plot-two captured Vietnamese radio operators, $4,000,000 worth of gold, and a purported message to Cambodian exiles in Thailand asking the strength of their forces. Brushing aside the denials from Thailand and South Viet Nam, Sihanouk thanked the Communists for tipping him off, and then turned on a "certain leading power" that furnishes arms to both...
Long Way to Market. While this seems simple common sense, it took eight years to persuade Congress to enact a direct reversal of the old law-under which the burden of proof was on the FDA to 1) show that ar additive in food already marketed was dangerous, and 2) get it banned by court order. Need for the new law has been intensified by speeding changes in U.S. food growing, marketing and eating habits: less and less food is grown at home or near the point of consumption; more and more is shipped great distances, takes longer to reach...