Word: kangaroos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oddly unconcerned about their wildlife. In the 1930s, government machine-gunners cut down 20,000 ostrichlike emus in a single sweep. Thousands of rare giant green sea turtles have also lately been killed for their oil, a prime ingredient of some skin creams. What Australians are doing to the kangaroo, the country's unofficial symbol, was recently summed up by an outback sheep farmer who bragged: "On my spread, we've shot 20,000 'roos in the last four years and there's still lots left." Also vanishing, at least in wild areas: the koala "Teddy...
...have any validity at all in the discipline of students, if it is to be seen as anything more than a kangaroo court useful for eliminating political dissent, it is essential that students accept its authority. They...
...Seven were hauled into court on what is at best a specious charge of what should be an unconstitutional law. They defended themselves as anyone would in a kangaroo court, and in the larger sense they won. As long as the Establishment continues to defend the morally bankrupt principles of the status quo, there will be armies of Sevens to put in jail...
Last week a five-man military court was convened for that purpose in Saigon. Neither of the accused turned up; Ho had fled the country and Chau had retreated to the National Assembly building. The kangaroo court got under way an hour before schedule, and by the time Chau's lawyer turned up at 9 a.m. it was all over; he was even denied the right to speak because he was late. Ho was sentenced to death, and Chau to 20 years' imprisonment...
...ensuing confrontations could not have occurred without this tension between a segment of students and faculty, these events were in no way inevitable. When the Ad Board first pressed charges against the five black students, the Harvard Black Law Student Association issued a statement branding the Board an "apparent kangaroo court" whose hearings constituted a "quasi-judicial lynching." Claiming that the OBU trial of January 13 was "the only tribunal [it could] acknowledge as legitimate," the HBLSA said it considered the hearings "a farce." But after the hearings were over (none of the five defendants attended) and the decisions announced...