Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before Nixon, Douglas believed that the secret conference room of the Supreme Court was bugged. Chief Justice Earl Warren once had the FBI "sweep" the conference room, but Douglas remained suspicious, since he thought the FBI probably put the bugs there in the first place. And the feisty old jurist, who originally planned to retire from the Supreme Court in 1969, vowed to stay on until "the last hound dog had stopped snapping at my heels." Sick and in pain, he did finally outlast Nixon. When he left the high court in 1975, he had served 36 years, longer than...
...treaty, in effect, consecrates the dictum laid down by Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius in 1609 that the oceans of the world belong to everyone. The problem, says Richardson, was that "the old Grotius order was breaking down." When negotiations first began, 50 countries had extended the traditional three-mile territorial limit to twelve miles, and many had pushed it to 200 miles. Bickering over fishing rights had even flared into gun battles. Freedom of passage through strategic straits was jeopardized. The discovery of mineral nodules on the seabed raised questions never defined in international law. The draft treaty attempts...
...both for being too leisurely and for moving too precipitately, especially in cases involving broad social issues. In an address marking his 30th year on the bench, Irving R. Kaufman, chief judge of the Manhattan-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, offered a defense of the jurist's craft...
That shooting in downtown Rome, carried out by a member of the dreaded Red Brigades, was one of three brazen assassinations of Italian judicial officials last week. Terrorists also gunned down noted Jurist Guido Galli in a corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when...