Word: civility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Iranian leader left Iran in the face of protest that was threatening a government of which he was in control. If he had stayed and fought, an inevitable civil war would have ensued, leaving great human and material destruction. The Shah's departure saved more than his own neck...
...their signatures to a twelve-page protocol that had already been initialed by representatives of Britain and the now defunct Salisbury government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa. The document: a three-sided agreement for a complete cease-fire in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's increasingly bloody seven-year civil...
There was one case, she remembers well, when she was turned down 21 consecutive times. But Patsy Morris is not one to take rejection personally, and she finally got an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer to say yes. Small wonder she runs into resistance: what she wants is 200 to 400 hours of someone's time and work for no pay. The people she is telephoning are lawyers; her "clients" have all been condemned to death. Thanks in large part to Morris' more than two years of dedicated work, only three of Georgia's 89 death...
...know in Georgia who does any criminal work at all has a death case," she says. Usually Morris is forced to seek out-of-state lawyers for petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court, often with the help of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, the New York City-based civil rights group that has led the legal assault against capital punishment since the mid-'60s. The fund's lawyers, themselves, represent about 50 prisoners nationwide...
...Farmer, Morris is no less intense. Before her 8:15 a.m. arrival at her Atlanta office, she puts in an hour on the telephone at home; most weeks she works six days. Her commitment to the struggle against capital punishment is a natural outgrowth of years spent in the civil rights movement with her husband John, an Episcopal, priest who works for the U.S. Health and Welfare Department. Those familiar with her work insist that she plays a unique role in the death penalty fight. Says Jack Boger, an L.D.F. staff attorney, "I wish there were someone like Patsy Morris...