Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nuremberg, the USSR added the massacre to the list of charges against Hermann Goering, but quietly dropped the accusations for lack of evidence. And during the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, Soviet forces leveled a monument to the slain officers...
Vowing to "escalate" their fight to restore the Law School's office for public interest law placement, law students have mobilized over the past weeks in numbers almost unheard-of at the normally complacent graduate school...
...Law School Dean Robert C. Clark drew fire from students for eliminating the program--one of his first administrative actions since taking office in July. In the weeks since students returned to classes this fall, the public interest controversy has spurred a petition drive, a new student activist group and a rally which drew hundreds of students and faculty...
...protests, however, have been a sharp contrast to previous episodes of activism at the Law School. Last spring's silent sit-ins calling for minority hiring consistently drew about 50 participants; last week's rally for public service law attracted about 300 students. And this week, Clark was handed a petition signed by 1055 out of about 1600 law students...
...Justice and law," he says, "I guess they could be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, Well, they're just not on speaking terms...