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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator's fear of using American power borders on the pathological. He has opposed the deployment of US troops to Grenada and Lebanon, he refuses to commit American forces directly in order to keep open the vital Straits of Hormuz, through which much of the Western world's imported oil flows, and now he wants America to abandon Central America...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Too Many Vietnams | 4/5/1984 | See Source »

...large majority of the justices doubled their error by going even further, deciding 5-4 that "a debtor-in-possession does not commit an unfair labor practice when, after the filing of a bankruptcy petition but before court-approved rejection of the collective-bargaining agreement, it unilaterally modifies or terminates one or more provisions of the agreement...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: A Bankrupt Decision | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Such an outcome is still an anomaly. Most experts believe that overall the costs of the criminal-court system are not increasing at a rate that is out of line with the rest of the economy. The majority of prosecutors and judges are still willing to commit whatever resources are necessary, even in blockbuster cases. The trial in which Texas Nurse Genene Jones was recently convicted of murdering a baby in a clinic where she worked cost Kerr County a big part of its annual court budget. But in nearby Bexar County, District Attorney Sam Millsap is gearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: When Justice Costs Millions | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

While many at LARC and VLP feel that volunteer efforts in legal services have been successful, they nevertheless agree that the federal government must commit itself to the support of legal assistance programs if the poor community is to receive the services it needs. "Legal Services can't do it alone, and neither can the private bar," says Young. "There's get to be an organized system where the programs and the bar can work together...

Author: By Christine A. Mesch, | Title: Legal-Ease? | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...services for Marines killed in Lebanon. It continued through the story on the 20th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination ("I cannot relive those days without terrible pain"); the ordeal of Baby Jane Doe, the Long Island infant born with severe birth defects; an article on criminals who commit multiple senseless murders; and a picture of a Turkish mother and her five dead babies killed in a devastating earthquake. "My heart is breaking," the letter concluded, "but I'll keep on reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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