Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While grilling Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Jackson charged that the Administration had failed to comply with a law that he had sponsored in 1972. It requests that future arms agreements set equal levels for the strategic forces of both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Because SALT II allows the Soviets to have more powerful missiles than the U.S., argued Jackson, there would be no equality under the pact. Said he to Brown: "A team of giants and a team of dwarfs might have equal numbers of players, but they are hardly equal." To which the Secretary retorted: "If the dwarfs...
Bundy, an ex-law student, led his own defense, occasionally cross-examining witnesses and raising legal points in a futile attempt to keep the prosecution from using its most incriminating evidence. But he left the closing argument to Defense Attorney Margaret Good. She attacked the case against him as "flimsy and unscientific." Said she of the bite marks: "It is a sad day for our system of justice if a man's life can be put on the line because they say he has crooked teeth...
...third branch of Government, Warren Burger's Supreme Court has avoided the hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
...Vilma Martinez, 35, the daughter of a San Antonio carpenter, worked her way through the University of Texas and Columbia Law School. After concentrating on civil rights for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund and the New York State division of human rights, she moved to San Francisco in 1973 to become the president and general counsel of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. There she has fought skillfully for the rights of 8 million Mexican Americans. Martinez, who herself grew up in a Spanish-speaking household, won a 1974 case before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that...
...Paul E. Tsongas, 38, a cool, darkly handsome man with an unruly shock of hair, has a touch of Kennedy about him. Indeed, it was John F. Kennedy who inspired Tsongas (pronounced Song-as) to spend two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia before getting his law degree at Yale. Tsongas opened his practice in his home town of Lowell, Mass., where his Greek emigrant grandfather had settled, and won his first election to Congress in 1974, by defeating Republican Edward Brooke. Considered to be one of the party's rising young liberals, Tsongas has strongly supported the Kennedy...