Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical student. The riots soon spread to half a dozen other cities. Last week, demonstrators protesting two more student deaths took over a 50-block area in Rosario, Argentina's second largest city, and held it for several hours, until they were routed by troops acting under martial law...
...sympathy for the students. The workers had their own grievances: the regime had frozen wages for more than two years, while the cost of living has risen more than 20%. When the unions declared a general strike last week, the regime responded with more repression. It declared "siege law," a modified form of martial law that empowered special military courts to try civilians for a host of offenses, from sedition to threats against the army -and to order summary execution for more serious crimes...
...failed to budge the rioters, the army flew in troops and additional ammunition, while jets fired off warning bursts of machine-gun fire overhead. Finally, the army ordered soldiers to shoot anyone appearing on the streets without permission during a dusk-to-dawn curfew. But neither curfew nor martial law nor dire warnings could halt the general strike next day. In Córdoba, riots broke out anew, and police opened fire on a crowd of 2,000 marchers. In the rest of the country, the strike brought all commerce, industry and transportation to a halt. The toll...
...law would continue to provide prison terms of up to six months for pornographers who purvey to children. In Minister Thestrup's opinion, however, the rektor's observation about the normal reaction to pornography applies equally well to adults and is the assumption behind his bill. When they are freely available, he believes, "pornographic books and pictures very quickly become boring and distasteful to adults with a normal sexual life." He is backed up by a four-member professional commission that spent two years studying the subject. The public's interest in pornography, he maintains, is mostly...
...first comprehensive written attempts to limit the powers of the English King and to set forth the rights of his subjects. Lord Bryce, the historian, has described it as "the starting point in the constitutional history of the English race." In The History of English Law, Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland go even further. Magna Carta, they write, is "the nearest approach to an irrepealable 'fundamental statute' that England has ever...