Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, the leader of the Peruvian junta, professes that he cannot comprehend why the U.S. is so upset. The seizure was legal under Peruvian law, he explains. Furthermore, according to the junta's charge, IPC still owes some $690 million for oil it "illegally" extracted. To the junta's way of thinking, it is Peru that should be angry. The U.S., says General Velasco, "is a just country. I cannot believe that the amendment will be applied...
...under fire. Now, with only about 10 days left of his active-duty tour as an Airman First Class, Patrick Nugent landed in Austin, Texas, to an enthusiastic greeting from Wife Luci and about 100 friends and relatives, including Lyndon Baines Johnson. "Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous," the proud father-in-law repeated, and occasionally prompted Grandson Lyn, almost 2, into a snappy salute. Said Lynda Bird: "I'm just so glad we have one of our boys home." Her boy, Marine Major Charles Robb, is due back late this month...
...press and public it appeared that Crockett had precipitously ordered wholesale releases and then gone out of his way to slap down the prosecutor. To Crockett, the angry protests were no surprise; he is not a stranger to controversy. A 1934 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he first caught the public eye when his freewheeling tactics as a defense attorney in the 1949 trial of eleven Communists earned him a four-month jail sentence for contempt of court. He continued to be active in civil libertarian causes, and was called an "enemy collaborator" by right-wing pamphleteers...
...draft law currently limits the combat-exempt status of a conscientious objector to one "who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." Virtually all draft boards have interpreted those words to mean that 1) a draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...case, the judge found the balance tipped by "the magnitude of Sisson's interest in not killing in the Viet Nam conflict as against the want of magnitude in the country's present need for him to be so employed." Said Wyzanski: "When the state through its laws seeks to override reasonable moral commitments, it makes a dangerously uncharacteristic choice. The law grows from the deposits of morality...