Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal-hungry press has no right to pretrial hearings so that they can feed the scandal-hungry public. Until a person is formally charged with a crime, his privacy must be protected...
...acted to restrict foreign reporters. At the same time, new legislation is being drawn up to tighten controls on the Iranian press. Among other things, the law would forbid "close associates of the Pahlavi regime" from owning or editing newspapers in Iran. It would also make it a crime to "insult" religious leaders or top government officials in print. The proposed measure has been held up because of strident criticism by Iranian journalists. Said an editor of the Persian-language daily Kayhan: "This potato is hotter than anybody thought...
...they could afford. Though polygamy would remain legal, according to legislation that was debated in Nairobi's Parliament last week, a man would be required to get permission from his first wife before marrying a second one. In addition, the new bill would make wife beating a crime...
Until then, most of the committee members had been convinced that Oswald had acted alone, but they began hunting for a conspiracy. The report notes that the Mafia had good reason to hate the Kennedys because of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime. The committee concedes that "it was unable to identify the other gunman or the nature and extent of the conspiracy." But it nonetheless concludes that it was "possible" that "an individual organized crime leader, or a small combination of leaders," had conspired to murder the President...
...would an enemy," as another poet, Marina Tsvetayeva, remarked. Official reservations about Mayakovsky's posthumous status were dissipated by Stalin in 1935, when he declared him to be the most talented poet of the Soviet era. "Indifference to his memory and to his work is a crime," he added menacingly...