Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Should a law protecting the flag also protect homemade facsimiles of the flag? Is a crayon drawing of the flag a flag...
...when Kiszczak announced that he was handing over the task of forming a government to Roman Malinowski, president of the Peasants' Party. Jaruzelski never asked Malinowski to form a government; perhaps he calculated that Malinowski would have been unacceptable to Solidarity because of his association with the 1981 martial-law crackdown...
Even so, Bennett's plan has stirred qualms within the Administration. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh worries about militarizing antidrug operations abroad. Says a Justice Department official: "Law-enforcement officers are trained to extract criminals from society, to think about the rights of innocent people and to be mindful of the sovereignty of other nations. Military forces are trained to take on whatever gets in the way, to destroy the enemy...
...LAW: Taking aim at fedoras and pinstripes...
Designed to go after mobsters, the catchall federal RICO law is being used to track down racketeers from Main Street to Wall Street...