Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...martial law still justified...
...Western world think of martial law as meaning the supremacy of the military over the civilian government. We know it only as the civil government using the military to enforce the civil law. Actually, the use of the term martial law was really unwise, illadvised. But whether you call it emergency rule, or a one-party system, as they have in other countries, the thing is that the martial law you speak of, which the Western world may find so odious, is not the same type of martial law that we have here...
...dimensions that we cannot actually now determine, I would rather play safe. I may be blamed for being overly cautious, but certainly meeting both the insurgency as well as the economic crisis at the same time, I don't think this is the time to lift martial law...
...Would you be willing to announce a definite timetable for phasing out martial law...
...Tell me when the economic crisis will terminate and I will tell you when we can terminate martial law. Suppose something happens in Iran, suppose something happens in the Middle East. Suppose you adopt a worst possible scenario: there I am at the helm of government and I have decided on the termination of all these measures-and all of a sudden this economic crisis brings all these problems...