Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factor in the Czechoslovaks' insistence on neutrality was apparently the same sort of disaffection with the Viet Nam war that has been plaguing U.S. citizens. In Prague, the new-breed officials who are taking over believe that the conflict is in danger of getting out of hand, resent the levied cost of arming Hanoi, and seem to want a de-escalation of Communist involvement...
Perhaps the most unorthodox concept of the agreement negotiated by the college and state, local and Negro representatives is a community council to be formed within a month to establish nonprofit community-housing cooperatives. The council will ensure that local Negroes have a hand, in every phase of the new housing, which will be built on 64 Central Ward acres retrieved by the city from the school's orieinal 150-acre site...
...through all of Eastern Europe. In Prague, Party Boss Alexander Dubcek, chief architect of the reforms, consolidated his position and opened the way for further liberalization by forcing the resignation of deposed Party Chief Antonin Novotny, 63, as President of the country that he had ruled with an iron hand for 15 years. Polish students used the reforms in Czecho slovakia as a herald in their defiance of the government. Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, an earlier liberalizer (TIME cover, March 18, 1966), read the handwriting on the wall and decided that Rumania should go farther along the reform road...
...compensates by hating and hurting life's winners. And the U.S. criminal-justice system all too often reinforces his contempt for society's values. If the suspect cannot afford a skilled lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial. For the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences...
...more flexible. An American Bar Association committee recently urged maximum five-year terms, except for dangerous offenders.*But even with good pre-sentence reports, trial judges cannot predict whether x years will suffice. Some countries require written sentence opinions for higher-court review. American law should probably hand the job to penal experts. Federal judges already may send convicted persons to classification centers before sentencing; New York's bail-pioneering Vera Institute of Justice is retraining such people for three months before the judge decides. In California, which leads the U.S. and most of the world in systematic penology...