Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exempted from it. For the rest of Algeria, compulsory child marriages will be forbidden, and courts will rule on divorce, custody over children and alimony. Though Néfissa's bill does not outlaw polygamy, it does the next best thing: an Algerian girl will be free to say no to a man who already has a wife...
...National Democrats. The leading pro-Communist among the Iraqi Cabinet ministers announced that he was off this week for Moscow to work out details of the new economic deal, which would put Western oil royalties to work on a development program in which Communist advisers will have the most say...
...shoot men of God. no matter of what religion-not even if they are from Kobeyat.'' The two Maronites were fed and sent on to Kobeyat with a letter expressing all Jaafra's regret at the error of its overzealous sons, but also going on to say that nothing was changed regarding the feud between the two villages...
...European markets. Equally visionary was Deputy Minister Gordon Robertson's suggestion to build an ocean pipeline from Ellesmere Island to Europe-a shorter distance, he pointed out, than Interprovincial pipeline spans between Edmonton and Toronto. Said Robertson: "It would be the wildest folly and the grossest arrogance to say that these things will not, in due course, be quite possible. The 'Far North' is far from us, but it is close to the center of the modern world...
...some novices made matters worse by loud self-justification (in itself an unZen act). Wailed one: "When we sit long hours in meditation, the blood tends to collect around our loins. It's natural for us to seek outlets." That was no surprise to some cynical Japanese, who say that novice Zen priests often slip anchor at night after the temple supervisor goes home. Many steer straight for the local brothel, where the madam courteously bundles them inside without obtrusive haggling at the door. Others hold frequent cookouts near the temple, wolfing down undercover banquets to fatten a temple...