Word: civilizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illusion that some basis of fair procedure underlay the war trials vanished last week when Castro ordered the retrial of forty-three airmen accused of bombing civilians during the civil war. Aside from the defense that in military operations bombing civilians is perhaps inevitable, or at least has not been outlawed in recent wars, the fliers had been acquitted on the same charge by a lower court. Castro, exclaiming that they were being tried "not by law, but by the will of the people," ordered a new trial...
...Visit and search," a peacetime euphemism for boarding alien vessels, is an old, embattled subject in international law. Britain boarded U.S. ships before the War of 1812, and the U.S. boarded vessels at various times thereafter: during the Civil War, in Prohibition days. In the South Atlantic a few months before Pearl Harbor, a party from the U.S. cruiser Omaha boarded and interned the German merchant raider Odenwald, which was masquerading under U.S. colors. The U.S. made a tentative stab at visit and search in 1954, when it asked Britain and other allies to permit U.S. Navy ships to seize...
Among Ayub's reforms: ¶ The government has ordered all civil servants to write out a detailed history of their financial dealings since independence. Since businessmen and landowners now face up to 14 years in jail for tax dodging, treasury clerks have had to work day and night to handle the long lines of delinquents. Pakistan has reclaimed $16 million from private illegal holdings of foreign exchange, found two tons of gold in the seaside hiding places of a band of smugglers...
...American Civil Liberties Union backed the suit, and Attorney William Butler, presenting the property owners' objections in court, contended that the prayer violates principles set down in the ist and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. The A.C.L.U. took the case, he said, because even though the prayer is nondenominational, it is "offensive" to some parents. Orthodox Jews, he noted, customarily pray in Hebrew and with their heads covered...
...Government moved a step closer to mandatory controls of oil imports. In its report last week to President Eisenhower, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization recommended a new compulsory import schedule to replace the voluntary curbs, which OCDM apparently felt have not cut imports enough...