Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of Obote, the exiles chose a compromise leader, Y.K. Lule, 66, former chancellor of Makerere University. Under the name of the Uganda National Liberation Front, the group declared that the new government will re-establish democratic principles, including the rule of law and respect for human rights. That would be quite a change for Big Daddy's tormented domain...
...talking it up mainly to provide some good news amid the Administration's talk of decontrolling crude oil and letting gas prices rise. Yet the presidential push will surely add to gasohol's growing popularity in Washington. Prodded by promoters, Congress last fall passed a law exempting the fuel from the 4?-per-gal. federal tax on gasoline. In January, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would permit service stations to sell gasohol instead of unleaded...
...wrote a savory story. He reported that New York Governor Hugh Carey, the longtime suitor of Ford's daughter Anne, had prevailed on Frank Sinatra to meet with Ford. Safire speculated broadly that Ford hoped that Sinatra's gangland contacts would get to Cohn's underworld law clients and persuade the lawyer to lay off. The column raised such a furor that Safire rather grudgingly wrote another piece reporting the many disclaimers...
...Last week, by a vote of 8 to 1. the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they are unconstitutional. No longer will police be able to stop a car at random to look at a driver's credentials unless the officer has some objective reason to suspect that the law has been broken. The case before the court involved a Delaware driver named William Prouse, 20, who was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana after his car was stopped during a "routine" license check in 1976. Police Officer Anthony Avena was not looking for drugs...
...founding fathers knew what a President should look like, they kept it to themselves. A President, says the Constitution, need only be a native-born resident and old enough (35) to be dry behind the ears. The law is mute on the shape and size of those ears and other elements of physiognomy, stature and hirsuteness that go into the chimerical mix of looks...