Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, the average porn paperback costs no more than 25? to produce. The publisher then sells it for about $1 to wholesalers like Cleveland's giant Sovereign News Co. The shortest end of the take goes to the authors-some of them teachers, housewives and journalists-who are lucky to clear $250 a book. Chicago's Loop now has about 20 "adult" bookstores, which also sell records, playing cards and other assorted forms of erotica; San Francisco has 60 stores, and Los Angeles...
...East Germans began handing out prison sentences to American and other Western students in September. That was shortly after the Soviets signed the Treaty of Moscow, which angered Ulbricht by failing to insist on West German recognition of East Germany as a totally independent and fully sovereign state. Last week, a closed court in East Berlin sentenced two more students to long terms...
...Justice Department has now issued a reply attacking the conservationists' suit on strictly legal grounds. According to Justice, the plaintiffs have no legal right to bring suit against the Department of Agriculture, because it enjoys "sovereign immunity." They also claim that the suit is premature, since the program has not yet been finally approved or funded. Furthermore, for a variety of technical reasons, it is impossible for the plaintiffs to claim that they represent "all citizens . . ." Therefore, Justice argues, the entire suit should be dismissed...
...world mission and the spiritual transformation of the universe. Even when they at last find America decadent too, they continue to use the same moral categorizing. New Left radicals who push for a revolutionary alliance among students, minorities and Third World nations also consider the internal affairs of various sovereign nations the legitimate concern of their sweeping ideologies. Some of the academics who staff the CFIA and the students who assault it have in common this disregard for the sovereignty of national boundaries, with continents no different from campuses. Ideology, free-world ideology or revolutionary, sweeps away the restraints...
...struggle is centered on the shiny new Freeport area, which has rubbed on the sensibilities of many blacks, especially Pindling, ever since it was created in 1955 by an extraordinary law. Under it, the Grand Bahama Port Authority, owned by a group of opportunistic foreign investors, was given almost sovereign powers over Freeport, including exemption from corporate and personal income taxes until 1990, and from some import duties until 2054. The Port Authority deal turned into a heated scandal when several officials of the all-white government later admitted taking "consultant fees" from some investors. Primarily on the Freeport issue...