Word: assertional
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...Smith is not likely to fade away after his term expires, despite his objections to former A.B.A. presidents who assert themselves. His drive is too great to tolerate passivity and he is too committed to the A.B.A.'s public service responsibilities. As he recently told an audience of law students: "We are not a trade association. We are not a union. We are out to improve justice and the administration of society. If you don't intend to work to improve the quality of justice, then I hope that you flunk your exams...
...Republican appointed to the bench by Governor Ronald Reagan, Ringer acknowledged that his order was, to say the least, unusual. "It will be up to the President or counsel to show it would be a hardship to appear, or to assert Executive privilege," he said. The White House indicated that Nixon would refuse to appear on constitutional grounds, involving either Executive privilege or the separation-of-powers doctrine. But the President almost certainly will respond hi writing...
...industry. The regime slowly eased out Soviet influence in the region whose people--Moslem Uighurs, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Mongols and Russians--were more closely tied ethnically with the Soviet Union than with China. In the years 1958-59 the Chinese met with severe unrest in Sinkiang, leading the regime to assert its need to "heighten Marxist-Leninist thinking and awareness and completely overcome local nationalistic ideas." During the sixties, the Chinese repeatedly encountered revolts by guerilla organizations in both Sinkiang and Tibet, and there have been numerous but univerified reports of concentration camps in Sinkiang accommodating captured revolutionaries...
...national security. Last week that rationale was discredited in a U.S. district court in Washington by one of Nixon's former top aides, a man who had used the same excuse to explain his own role in the scandal. "I now feel that I cannot in conscience assert national security as a defense," he said, adding that he now understood "the transcendent importance of the rule of law over the motivations...
...lawyers, who met last month in Washington, the improved procedures are still insufficient. Too often, they charge, justice depends on geography: some dioceses have well-informed, full-time tribunals, other dioceses only a few overworked men unfamiliar with the intricacies of canon law. What the U.S. needs, the canonists assert, is "an entirely new system of decision making in marriage cases...