Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real danger, however, was that foreign press crews might continue to disseminate truthful information, blackening the Chinese government's careful whitewash. At midweek officials charged two American correspondents, Alan Pessin of the Voice of America and John Pomfret of the Associated Press, with violating martial-law restrictions, and gave them 72 hours to leave China...
...view of their cold reception by the Supreme Court, civil rights advocates are increasingly looking to the Democratic-controlled Congress for legislative remedies. Indeed, many of the Justices' rulings involve interpretations of federal statutes that could be easily overturned by passing new laws. "Hopefully, Congress will have the political will to do exactly that," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. "The ball is back in Congress's court...
...bailout plan by an estimated $5 billion. The House refused to go along with that sleight of hand and voted to include the $50 billion in the federal budget. But the House exempted the S & L spending from deficit limits set by the Gramm-Rudman-Holling s law. Bush hopes to keep the financing off-budget when the House and Senate bills are reconciled in a conference committee...
...army insists it will punish Jews who break the law. But Palestinians say soldiers often stand by idly when settlers attack Arabs. Rafik, 31, who won't disclose his full name for fear of retaliation, recalls an attack on his home in the village of Halhul two weeks ago. Just as the family was finishing breakfast, five heavily armed men stepped from a car with Israeli license plates and unleashed a barrage of insults and indiscriminate gunfire. "It was an expression of raw hatred," says Rafik, pointing to broken windows and mirrors and a dozen bullet holes in the wall...
...Israel's hard-line leaders are reluctant to criticize the behavior of their fellow nationalists across the "green line." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir concedes that "no one is entitled to take the law into his own hands" but reserves his sympathy for the settlers' plight. Foreign Minister Moshe Arens praises West Bank Jews as the "frontline obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state." Still, the government hopes to cool off the settlers with a series of tough new measures against Arab demonstrators. Last week Chief of Staff Dan Shomron requested an amendment that would allow him to deport Palestinians...