Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bork argued that "constitutional protection should be accorded only to speech that is explicitly political." He also challenged as "fundamentally wrong" the court's 1969 decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which held that speech advocating violence can be restricted only when it is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action...
...most forthright criticism yet of Bork. A presidential candidate who has already announced his intention to vote against Bork's confirmation, Biden told the American Bar Association convention in San Francisco that Bork might try to revoke "dozens" of the milestone Supreme Court decisions that the judge has called "lawless," "unprincipled" and "utterly specious." Said Biden: "Had he been Justice Bork during the past 30 years and had his view prevailed, America would be a fundamentally different place than it is today...
...trying to streamline the collection of taxes. Now ordinary Chinese have begun to vent their spleen at the taxman. The China Daily reported last week that in several provinces testy scofflaws turned on tax collectors with bricks and knives. In Shaanxi province, the paper said, a "gang of lawless ruffians" stormed a tax office, seriously injuring several employees. Peking has vowed swift punishment for those guilty of "assailing tax cadres...
...messenger dropped off sealed envelopes at the offices of two West Beirut newspapers before he disappeared into the lawless night. The news: one of the American hostages in Lebanon, Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, 51, a Roman Catholic priest from Joliet, Ill., was about to be released by Islamic Jihad, the shadowy Shi'ite Muslim terrorist group that had abducted him in January 1985. His captors claimed that Jenco, who suffers from a heart condition, was being freed because of "deteriorating health" and released photos of the haggard priest in a red shirt. But their hostage seemed reasonably fit when found...
Flattery, however, does not ease the responsibility of keeping the peace in a town that glorifies its lawless past. Tombstone's bloody history is about the only thing it has in the way of a drawing card, and since tourism is about the only thing it has in the way of a business, there you are. Boothill graveyard holds the remains of scores who did not go gentle into that good night. The main drag, Allen Street, is virtually a shrine to the trigger- happy, to soiled doves and to strong drink. Hiring on as a deputy in April...