Word: clark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital punishment assembled in Florida last week to stage a last-minute campaign for the hapless Spenkelink. Henry Schwarzschild of the American Civil Liberties Union warned of a "constitutional, legal and political disaster that will shock and appall the rest of the world." Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a late addition to Spenkelink's defense team, called the occasion "a tragic moment in American history" and gibed, "If you work at city hall you get voluntary manslaughter," a caustic reference to the lenient verdict against Dan White, the slayer of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey...
Three lawyers, including Clark, argued before Federal Judge Elbert Tuttle that the court-appointed lawyers who defended Spenkelink at his trial were ineffective. In Washington, Lawyer Joel Berger went from Justice to Justice. Finally, Thurgood Marshall ordered that the execution be stayed. Almost simultaneously, Judge Tuttle...
...ended the Trudeau era is Joe Clark, the little-known leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. At 39, Clark will become Canada's youngest Prime Minister ever and its first Tory leader since John Diefenbaker was defeated by Lester Pearson in 1963. Clark faces the most difficult challenge that has confronted Canada in the 112 years since confederation: reconciling a nation that has never quite come to grips with its divided past...
...seats in the newly enlarged Parliament (up from 264). Canada's 14.9 million voters divided along linguistic lines; French-speaking voters overwhelmingly supported Trudeau's Liberals, while most of the 60.2% of the population that claims English as its first or only language backed Clark's Conservatives. The result was a Tory plurality in Parliament: 136 seats for the Conservatives, 114 for the Liberals, 26 for the mildly socialist New Democratic Party, six for the rightist, rural Social Credit Party...
...supplier of oil, natural gas and other raw materials. In recent years Washington has been jittery about Quebec's volatile separatist movement and has privately applauded Trudeau's efforts to control it. State Department officials expect no significant changes in U.S.-Canada relations as a result of Clark's victory. But they acknowledge that it will take some time for the new Prime Minister to achieve the warm personal rapport that Trudeau had with Jimmy Carter...