Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to Rep. Sidney Yates, chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Studds warned that landowners required to surrender land to the tribe as part of the settlement would not be bound by the agreement if it is not completed...
...Kennedy's nomination. But last week he allowed that Kennedy might make a "fine" Justice. Liberals are mostly being noncommittal, but they will have trouble taking back their comments during the Bork fight, when some identified Kennedy as the type of conservative they could accept. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who helped lead the opposition against Bork, describes Kennedy as "decent instead of dogmatic, sensitive instead of strident." Those may not be the qualities of a legal groundbreaker, but they are far from the worst qualifications for judging the most explosive issues in American life, all of which sooner...
...rise and fall of Mama Alice is rooted in Uganda's tribal politics as well as in Africa's tradition of magic worship. The daughter of an Anglican clergyman and a member of the small Acholi tribe in the savannas of northern Uganda, Alice has appealed to regional animosities to build her rebel force, composed mostly of peasant farmers, teenage boys and ex-soldiers. One source of strong resentment is the domination of Museveni's National Resistance Army by Bantu-speaking southerners and westerners. Alice claimed to be under the command of a holy spirit called lakwena, the Acholi word...
...Tribe's attorney Philip Lacovara, who served asan adviser during the Watergate hearings, saidyesterday that he would pursue leads throughsources in the Executive and Legislative branches...
Lacovara added that Tribe has been involved inseveral controversial issues other than the Borkhearings. "Professor Tribe is involved in a largenumber of issues of public policy. We want toexplore each of those to see which if any of hisopponents were motivated to do this," Lacovarasaid. In addition to his role in the Borkhearings, Tribe served as counsel to Pennzoilwhich won a $10 billion case from Texaco in April...