Word: intention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, ground and air combat in the South is being greatly intensified. Last week, while U.S. Army units fanned out in three big search-and-destroy operations, thousands of marines, intent on trapping a hard-core Viet Cong division, stormed a beach south of Quang Ngai in the biggest amphibious assault mounted by the U.S. since the Inchon landing in Korea...
...Intent on cutting down expenses, General Ironsi fired rafts of civil servants and sharply reduced official travel abroad. And no one would fault him for good intentions on the broader economic front: "We recognize the important role of private investment. To this end, the government is revising the legislation relating to incentives in order to assist private businessmen to establish projects of benefit to the economy...
...assorted law reviews is the fact that statutory rape is a rare anomaly in U.S. law. In most crimes, notes Omaha Lawyer Larry W. Myers in the Michigan Law Review, the prosecution must prove mens rea (the guilty mind), an ancient concept that includes criminal intent. Not so for statutory rape. An American may beat the rap by proving that he didn't do it, proving that the girl was of age-or (in Virginia) marrying her. In most cases, though, a claim that he honestly and reasonably believed that the girl was old enough simply will...
...appealed to the California Supreme Court (see Courts), no U.S. court has ever permitted age-mistake as a defense against a charge of statutory rape. Hernandez, though, pointed to a California law that exonerates criminal acts committed "under an ignorance or mistake of fact which disproves any criminal intent." Having recently applied that rule to bigamy, the California Supreme Court scrapped 68 years of precedents and extended it still further in reversing Hernandez's conviction. Chief Justice Roger Traynor added: "This is not to say that the granting of consent by even a sexually sophisticated girl known...
Though the author imposes no patterns, a pattern emerges. The patrician and idle society of the past was in its last days. The industrial revolution had produced new men, with new ideas that were sometimes wildly impractical, often idealistic, but always intent on making themselves felt. Her book amounts to a close-up view of the clash between them...