Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruled that she can act as her own lawyer, as she wishes, working with Public Defender E. Richard Walker. Referring to some of the extraneous issues Squeaky had cited as vaguely behind her decision to flash a revolver from out of a Sacramento crowd, the judge said he would bar any "ecology statements on how bad things are as far as trees, air, water or land are concerned." In an earlier court appearance, Squeaky had lectured MacBride about environmental pollution and urged him to "save the redwoods." She apparently will not be allowed to repeat any such theatrical threats...
...convention says yes or no. If ordination wins, the bishops may propose a local-option solution like that adopted by the Anglican Church of Canada, where each diocese has the right to decide whether to ordain women as priests. Chicago's Bishop James Montgomery says he would not bar ordinations in his diocese, but he might refuse to conduct them himself...
...news conference after the decision was announced, a smiling, determined Matlovich held up a Bicentennial half dollar and observed: "It says 200 years of freedom. Not yet-but it will be some day." Then, with his friends, many of them homosexuals and in uniform, he retired to the Cue bar in Norfolk to drink beer...
...spared having to deal with some difficult issues. South Africa, for instance, will not immediately attempt to retake its seat in the Assembly, thus postponing a showdown between the Western nations, who insist that the U.N. should be open to all, and the Third World countries who voted to bar Pretoria's delegates during the Bouteflika era. For different reasons, Israel will also not be a seriously divisive issue. Syria will call for Israel's ouster, but Egypt and other moderate Arab states, in the wake of the Sinai accord, will probably pretend not to hear...
...American Bar Association has suggested that death should now be legally redefined as the "irreversible cessation of total brain function." Only a few states-not including New Jersey -have passed such a law. Nor can lawyers in the case, after days of research, find a single court precedent. Though there are nominally three sides in the court action, all seem united in a desire to take this case on through the appeals courts to get a full and thoughtful legal resolution of the many issues. Her mother finds comfort in that, believing that God kept Karen alive "so that others...