Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guerrillas should be in charge. Mugabe arrived in Lusaka several days later, was briefed on the Smith meeting by Nigerian officials involved in the negotiations, and then sought the advice of several other African leaders. Both Nyerere and Machel argued that Smith was not really prepared to withdraw in favor of a Patriotic Front-dominated government, and that the price of the Front's cooperation should be a letter of resignation by Smith. It was Nyerere who revealed to the press on Sept. 1 that the secret meeting had taken place. Nkomo at first denied the report...
Across the country, the law-abiding are in a punitive mood. A Gallup poll last spring showed 62% of Americans in favor of the death penalty. The public sense of justice, of the simple fairness and fitness of things, is frayed. The nation's crime rate has risen 300% in the past 18 years, though a part of the increase merely reflects greater attention to reporting crimes. These were precisely the years when society was at its greatest pains to humanize the justice system, make rehabilitation programs work and allow indeterminate sentences to relax the law's supposedly...
...principally poverty and racism. But those questions cannot be solved by a mindless leniency toward criminals in the courts. That policy invites contempt from the poor, who are much more likely than others to be the victims of criminals, and who, in fact, are more likely to favor the death penalty...
...appeared as a character witness for a man convicted of drunken driving who was trying to get his license back so he could take his wife to the hospital for cancer treatments. To spare a penniless 18-year-old loan delinquent, Taunton refused to enter the final judgment in favor of the loan company...
Only three months later the judge was hauled before the Judicial Qualifications Commission. In addition to the charge of bending the law to favor the poor, Taunton was accused of using his public office to muckrake and of spending public funds ($11.83) to make his investigations. "Judge Taunton is a right nice fella," John Wigginton, general counsel to the commission, told the St. Petersburg Times. "It's just that he's got what seems to be a deep-seated fetish about poor people. We feel he ought to be doing something else for a living-like welfare work...