Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would on a workday. The idea was to show that there was little to celebrate and that little had changed-a point Thieu made repeatedly in a combative TV address to the nation. "There is no peace yet," he said. "This is only a standstill ceasefire. If the Communists commit small cease-fire violations, we will respond with small actions. If they commit big violations, we will respond with big actions...
...Governor's diamond-hard line: mandatory life sentences for all hard-drug pushers and hard-drug users who commit violent crimes while under the influence. The sentences would preclude any possibility of parole or plea bargaining (although those in their upper teens would become eligible for parole after 15 years...
...fact that it was a woman rather than a man doing the exploiting cut no ice with Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. "Once you regard a person as merely a means to your plea sure," he declared during his four hours of testimony, "then you will be ready to commit any act for your pleasure or displeasure-putting another person in a concentration camp or exploiting his teeth and hair...
...commission studying the New York State court system despaired of the whole thing and recommended that bail be done away with. Instead, it proposed that all defendants be released until trial, except certain suspects who a judge thinks are not likely to return. "The possibility that a defendant might commit a criminal offense while on release should not be a ground for detaining him," it said...
...ROST ENBERGS were tried in 1951 for conspiracy to commit espionage. They were sound polite and were electrocuted after spending two years on death row. At the time of the trial relatively little protest was raised on their behalf. Even when the Courts verdict linked the couple to a pair of state's witnesses as fellow members of a sustaining which (supposedly) delivered nuclear society to the Soviet Union, no liberals or CP members disputed the judgement expect for the Rosenbergs themselves. Only after the trial's impression of conclusiveness wore out did many left politicos take action. They tried...