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...York that the following year, when the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three whites at Caledon Bay in Arnhem Land prompted plans for a punitive police expedition, he lobbied the Federal Government to send him as peace broker. Despite officials' fears that he'd be killed - and a request, which he refused, to collect skulls while there - Thomson set off in 1935 to calm tensions and, he hoped, document for policymakers the needs and culture of a people about whom almost nothing was known: "I was to show them that a European was prepared to trust them...
...sacred things of their uniqueness," said Randy Thomasson, founder of the Campaign for California Families. "What's next? Legalized heroin? Prostitution? Polygamy? Incest?" Thomasson's was one of two groups that asked for a temporary restraining order to halt the marriage spree. On Friday a local judge refused the request...
...behavior? Perhaps because most players assigned to entertain recruits are given few good-conduct rules beyond not to embarrass themselves or the school. Strippers and sex are apparently not something to be embarrassed about. The owner of Hardbodies Entertainment told the Rocky Mountain News it has sent strippers on request to Colorado recruiting parties...
...Hague, said his client has not yet decided how to respond to May's departure. "Over the past few weeks, [Milosevic] has been unable to attend the hearings because of illness, let alone deal with such a serious matter as the continuation of the trial or a request for a retrial," Tomanovic told Serbian radio station B92. In Belgrade Milosevic's supporters, invigorated after forming an alliance with newly-elected Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, are triumphant. "The trial has collapsed," Ivica Dacic, a former aide to Milosevic and a leader of his Socialist Party of Serbia, told reporters. "Even...
Seth I. Horowitz, was unable to return a request for comment yesterday...