Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church bombings and lynchings. This, however, seems incongruous in light of the recent decision of Miss Esther Carter to set free the 21 alleged lynchers of three civil rights workers. According to the Justice Department, her ruling was reached without precedent in either British or American law. Such disregard for state decisions may have been rationalized in colonial America where limited precedents existed. However, precedents concerning procedure for admitting evidence are numerous today. Already there are misgivings about the judge who will convene the Grand Jury in this case. This is the same judge who threatened to jail acting attorney...
...death and destruction. Now, against their will, these people have be come the pawns in an ideological struggle between the great powers. It is no wonder that, contrary to Buddhist teachings, violence erupted in this atmosphere of frustration and fear. We fail to see that Asiatics dislike our disregard for their ancient cultures. Expecting them to adopt our attitudes and political institutions can only lead to regression, which may violently alter the course of history...
...Supreme Court has declared is fundamentally wrong." Turner was referring to New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a landmark decision holding that public officials can sue their critics only for a false statement "made with actual malice-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard for whether it was false...
Finally, in Southern California, Goldwater mentioned Jenkins by name, tearing into the Administration for "careless disregard of security procedures which is so obviously indicated by the Jenkins case." Said the Republican candidate: "The issue of national security and national integrity now has become firmly embedded in this election campaign. The man who now occupies the White House raised this issue all by himself by lowering the standards of the highest office in the land...
...This action appears even more ludicrous in view of the scandals that have been characteristic of the Johnson Administration. Why has there been no mass clerical denunciation of the Bobby Baker scandal? Certainly the respectable clergy cannot be blind to the lack of morality in high offices and widespread disregard of the law that are now so prevalent in our country...