Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report came two weeks after Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 other protesters were cleared of trespassing and disorderly conduct charges stemming from a demonstration against CIA recruitment at the 35,000-student campus...
...Everyone on the jury was over 30," a beaming Amy Carter, 19, told cheering supporters after she and 14 co-defendants, including over-30 Activist Abbie Hoffman, were acquitted last week of trespassing and disorderly conduct charges. Their seven-day trial stemmed from a November protest against CIA recruiting at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Carter and her colleagues were allowed by the judge to invoke a centuries-old, common-law "necessity defense." An offense may be considered justifiable if it is directed against a "clear and imminent danger" that is of greater harm to the community, in this...
...Schmidt and other Europeans persisted, and in December 1979, toward the end of the Carter Administration, allied ministers met in Brussels and committed their governments to the so-called two-track decision. NATO would proceed toward deployment, beginning in late 1983, of 572 new intermediate- range American missiles in Europe to offset the SS-20s. Five NATO members would accept batteries of Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles, and West Germany would also permit the upgrading of the Pershing I to the Pershing II, which has more than twice the range and a much more accurate warhead. At the same time...
Precise federal sentencing standards will limit judges but worsen prison crowding. -- CIA Protester Amy Carter goes free...
...breach between the two leading members of the national- unity government grows wider, but Prime Minister Shamir tells TIME, "We are self- confident, and we know we are on the right track." -- Former President Carter calls for an international peace conference on the Middle East. -- Cheering crowds greet Soviet Leader Gorbachev during a visit to Czechoslovakia...