Word: good-faith
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...treaty securing peace in the region. At the end of that period, Congress will vote again on whether to release the funds to arm the contras. To win that round, the Administration will have to convince a majority in both houses that the U.S. at least made a good-faith diplomatic effort...
...performance. The full court went almost as far: it held that journalists should not be liable for the results of honest error about public matters, regardless of how false or injurious the report. Said Justice William Brennan in the majority opinion: "Raising as it does the possibility that a good-faith critic of government will be penalized for his criticism, the proposition relied on by the Alabama courts (that an attack on government performance is a personal attack on government officials) strikes at the very center of the constitutionally protected area of free expression." The court believed that without such...
...fact, there is evidence that the military has made some good-faith efforts to solve the procurement problem. Navy Secretary John Lehman announced last week that he was seeking a second supplier for the superthrust F404 engine, which powers the F-18 fighter-bomber. Weinberger also showed a willingness to crack down. He told Congress that he would not ask for more money in fiscal 1985 to buy the Army's problem-plagued Sergeant York antiaircraft gun pending further tests, and indicated that the weapon might be terminated altogether. The Army had planned to buy 618 of the guns...
...magistrate, it does not matter if the warrant is in some way defective (misdated, say, or not specific enough). Court experts say that the addition of two or three conservatives would accelerate the assault on the exclusionary rule. Says Bender: "Very quickly there would be a general good-faith exception leading to, for all practical purposes, no exclusionary rule...
...President was to deliver a major address before the General Assembly, his third appearance at the U.N. Though Reagan planned to touch on a number of world trouble spots, White House aides expected him to refrain from finger pointing and instead express confidence that progress can be achieved through good-faith negotiations. The second half of his speech was to be devoted to U.S.-Soviet relations. Reagan planned to open this section by reasserting his commitment to negotiation rather than confrontation as a means of settling disputes. He was expected to list three short-term U.S. goals in dealing with...