Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lifton, 53, had been planning to write about the Holocaust for years, but this opportunity came by chance. Two years ago, the New York Times Book Co., a subsidiary of the newspaper, hired a German jurist as a consultant for a proposed book on Auschwitz. Lifton agreed to write...
Warren thus became one of only a handful of federal judges ever to exercise "prior restraint," that is, ban a story before it is published. Trying to avoid this fateful step, he first suggested that an independent panel of two press representatives, two arms specialists and one jurist work out compromise deletions so the article could be printed. The Government was willing, but the magazine was not. Said Editor Erwin Knoll: "You can't mediate your First Amendment rights...
...often hinge on the victim's word against the defendant's, a standard defense tactic has long been to make the woman appear to have been seeking sex. Courts allowed this, generally following the admonitory dictum on rape laid down in the 17th century by the English jurist Sir Matthew Hale: "An accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent." Over the years, rape became encrusted with rules to protect men from vengeful women: almost anything about the victim's sex life...
While Afrikaners adjusted to the shock of Mulder's resignation, Prime Minister P.W. Botha struggled desperately to prevent the scandal from spreading. Botha publicly dismissed Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert. The jurist had conducted a one-man probe of the operation of the slush fund during the time that Mulder served as Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. Mostert's report produced testimony from witnesses that the Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions...
...prosecutors plan to work overtime to keep the program alive. New York, New Orleans and Boston are seeking state aid to continue. "Anybody who knows anything about crime in this society knows that what criminals fear most is a speedy trial and the certainty of punishment," says retired Massachusetts Jurist Walter H. McLaughlin. "The Major Violators program combines both. It ought to be continued at all costs...