Word: accordance
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...juries violates the due process clause of the Constitution. In his 38-page majority opinion, Justice John M. Harlan refused to be drawn into a debate on capital punishment. Said Harlan: "The Federal Constitution does not guarantee trial procedures that are the best of all worlds, or that accord with the most enlightened ideas of students of the infant science of criminology, or even those that measure up to the individual predilections of members of this Court." All the Constitution requires, Harlan held, is a fairly conducted trial in which the defendant's guaranteed rights are respected...
...respect is something to be granted only grudgingly after years of character testing. Thus it was something of a surprise that Vermont this month moved more forcefully than any other state to grant its restive young a new equality with their elders. The Vermont legislature became the first to accord 18-year-olds full majority rights...
Some Western diplomats still insist that a West Berlin accord will be reached -some day. But the fact is that the Soviets and the West are at present so far apart that no agreement can be hoped for within the foreseeable future unless one side or the other drastically alters its stand. After last week's session ended, TIME'S Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate managed to obtain a picture of the Western and Soviet positions. The major issues...
...dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra-that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians in accord with his supreme apostolic authority he explains a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter -operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church...
...According to Tonis, the Harvard police were completely surprised when the women left of their own accord. "Apparently the judge's order scared them out, that's what I think," he said...