Word: arguments
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With this statement to a weary House of Commons last week, Home Secretary Roy Jenkins came to the heart of the matter in the long argument over whether to reform Britain's archaic criminal statutes against homosexuality. Despite a flurry of last-minute amendments aimed at killing the reform bill, the M.P.s passed it by a 7-1 margin. For the first time since the era of Henry VIII, private homosexual acts between consenting males over 21 will not be subject to criminal prosecution...
...cases-one in Florida, two in California-depend at least partly on the contention that the death penalty is "cruel and unusual" punishment, which is explicitly barred by the Eighth Amendment. "And the less frequently it occurs," says Wulf, "the more cruel and unusual it becomes." Another argument claims that the death penalty serves no interest of society and is therefore unnecessary punishment in violation of due process of law. In the Florida suit, which seeks to do away with capital punishment on behalf of all 51 men on the state's death row, it is additionally contended that...
...surcharge on corporate and personal income taxes. Speaking to the Toledo Rotary Club, the FRB chairman bluntly urged higher taxes without delay. Moreover, he said he would back an increase even larger than 6%, "if warranted," after Congress makes this year's appropriations. Unlike Ackley, who based his argument on bullish expectations of a strongly rising market for durable goods, a burst of spending for factories, and an early end to the economic drag of falling business inventories, Martin accentuated the negative...
Martin's argument was founded on anticipation of a huge and inflationary federal budget deficit. Having closed the 1967 fiscal year July 1 with a deficit of about $11 billion, second highest since World War II, the Administration now estimates that the next year's will be $13.6 billion. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler recently admitted that it might go as high as $24 billion, mostly because of the Viet Nam war. Warned Martin in Toledo: "We must have adequate, effective-and above all -prompt tax action that would whittle down the deficit to manageable proportions. Delay would permit...
Died. Ichiro Kiyose, 82, Japan's leading authority on criminal law, who nonetheless in 1948 lost to the gallows his most celebrated client, Wartime Premier Hideki Tojo, despite a stubborn argument that Tojo had merely acted in national self-defense; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...