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...full page of five articles outlining human rights criticisms and urging that new civ il and criminal codes be adopted to protect those rights. "In some places," said the People's Daily, "the legal rights and interests of citizens are badly infringed. Rations are cut. Private property is tak en away, rural markets are closed down, and legal economic activities are not guaranteed. All of these things can still happen...
Number-two player Tak Wong upset Rutgers's nationally ranked star, Elliot Katz, by 21-17 and 21-19 scores to spark the win over the Scarlet Knights. The Crimson dropped the A singles against Rutgers, 5-4, but managed to win the B singles, 6-3, and the doubles, 2-1, for the semifinal...
...dais; although the P.R.G. frowns on prostitution, streetwalkers and bar girls were still hawking their charms. American pop songs blared out from the jukeboxes of cafes and bars, and the old Thieves' Market on Bac Si Calumette Street was jammed with TV sets, cameras and transistor radios tak en from abandoned American...
...gold mystique has never tak en hold in the U.S. For one thing, there was precious little of it around in the nation's early days: almost 90% of the known world gold supply of 80,000 tons has been produced in only the last century. Even in the pre-Revolutionary period, when most of the major countries were still relying on metal currency, the colonists were widely circulating paper money of one kind or another to meet the needs of their growing commerce...
...proposed rule would have made challenges difficult for any group that felt cheated in a state-delegation selection process: the burden of proof would have been on the accuser who charged that the state party had not honestly tak en affirmative action. Some blacks, whose position was supported by the women's caucus, threatened to walk out of the convention if the rule was not changed to make challenge easier. After some tense bargaining and caucusing, it was changed to tighten the monitoring of affirmative action and remove the burden of proof...