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Navassa. Both the U.S. and Haiti claim this two-mile-long, uninhabited, guano-covered Caribbean rock. The quarrel goes back to an 1856 congressional act allowing U.S. citizens to claim certain islands in order to mine sea bird droppings, which are used as fertilizer. Negotiations to solve the dispute broke off in 1979 when the Haitians refused a U.S. request for fishing rights. Only the seagulls were relieved...
Inman often clashed with the staff of Reagan's National Security Council, particularly with former National Security Adviser Richard Allen. One quarrel was over an Executive order supported by the NSC that would have given the CIA broad authority to spy on U.S. citizens at home when they were linked to "significant foreign intelligence" operations. Inman did not publicly object to this domestic CIA role, but he did oppose giving the CIA a free hand in the types of activities it could probe and the methods it could use. Largely because of his efforts, the order was tightened...
...more precisely-and assumes the audience will see some sort of universal meaning in a name like "San Francisco". In "West Side," Nye sets up a conflict in language, Spanish place names conflicting with Protestant names of men. The power in the poem does not come from the language quarrel, which exists only in the contrasting sounds, but from the risk that the names Nye uses will set into motion ideas that she never intended...
...refusal to pay Social Security taxes did not stem from any disrespect for the law. He personally has no quarrel with the Social Security system, and believes it is fine-for those who need it. But it is a tenet of their religious belief that the Amish people should take care of their own. They do not collect unemployment or welfare benefits. They do not buy insurance of any kind. By an act of Congress in 1965, self-employed Amish men are exempt from paying Social Security taxes on religious grounds. But the act does not cover Amish...
...stabbed to death. MacDonald, then a physician for the Green Berets, lay unconscious in the duplex apartment with 17 stab wounds. He claimed that four "hippie types" had committed the brutal slayings, but Army investigators believed he had expertly stabbed himself with nonfatal wounds to cover a homicidal marital quarrel. The Army charged MacDonald with the murders and then, after more investigation, dropped the case. But in 1975, after a protracted Justice Department inquiry, a federal grand jury indicted the doctor. In 1979, 9½ years after the murders, he was convicted and sentenced to three life terms...