Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time, distinctions would be drawn between professional criminals, confirmed addicts and casual drug users. Mandatory jail sentences for mere possession of drugs-now a minimum of two years-would be eliminated. The first offense would be downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor, although possession with intent to sell would remain a felony. For professional pushers, a jail term of at least five years would still be required...
Instead of classifying both possession and sale as felonies, the new law would drastically reduce the punishment for possession, while maintaining "intent to sell" as a felony and providing for severer penalties...
...Paris talks may be a drag," concedes one senior official in Washington. "But everyone seems to agree that they must be kept going." The most optimistic view of the negotiations is that, however unproductive they have been so far, they still give each side a chance to gauge the intent of the other and to search for the elusive signal that could point the way toward peace...
...bars Communist Party members from the faculty. Under Governor Ronald Reagan's leadership, they chose to overlook more recent rulings by both the California and U.S. Supreme Courts holding that mere membership in the Communist Party does not disqualify a professor from teaching in a state university; specific intent to carry out the party's unlawful aims must be shown. Equally remarkable, the regents ignored the advice of U.C.L.A. Chancellor Charles Young, who opposed the firing from the beginning. "A bunch of old men raising old issues, saying they believe in law and order and doing illegal acts...
...express the clear intent of Congress that all American military personnel be withdrawn from Vietnam on or before December 1, 1970; so that the retention even of non-combat military training personnel in Vietnam after that date would not be permitted without the enactment by Congress of further legislation specifically approving such retention...