Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White, 31, has squealed again -- on himself. He confessed that at least some of the information he passed on to lawmen was nothing but a pack of lies. While dismayed law-enforcement officials looked on, White demonstrated how easy it is for a would-be stoolie to concoct a false confession simply by using a telephone in the prison chaplain's office. Identifying himself as a bail bondsman, White called the sheriff's document-control center and got an accused murderer's case number and date of arrest. Then he phoned the district attorney's records bureau, identifying himself...
...Burling was acquitted on largely lexicological grounds. The state legislature misspelled the drug's chemical name when it passed the bill that outlawed it in 1986. Thus Burling could not be convicted of possessing the substance specified by the lawmakers. The correct spelling is methylenedioxymethamphetamine, not ) methylenedioxyethamphetamine as the law had it. Next time they ban a drug in Nebraska, they'd better consult a pharmacological dictionary...
Alarm over the narcotics epidemic has ignited a divisive debate over drug laws and the best way to attack the problem. Former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi has called for a drastic reversal of the old law: he wants users punished. "You can't ban the sale of drugs from one side and give freedom to buy them on the other," he argues. Craxi's hard line has drawn fire from liberals, especially Minister for Special Affairs Rosa Russo Jervolino, chief author of a new antidrug law calling for stiffer sentences for traffickers, more support for police, and better rehabilitation programs...
...resolution gave Washington 24 hours to "reconsider and reverse" its decision. As expected, Secretary of State George Shultz, who made the decision in the first place, refused to yield, reasserting that Arafat, as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was an "accessory" to terrorism and consequently barred under American law from entering the U.S. Two days later the General Assembly passed a second resolution, by a vote of 154 to 2, announcing a plenary session in Geneva, Dec. 13 through 15, for the express purpose of hearing Arafat speak...
...claim that Arafat's presence would endanger national security was, as put forward by the State Department, self-contradictory. It was based on an ambiguously worded U.S. law that, according to Shultz, conditions the Headquarters Agreement on a U.S. right "to safeguard its own security." Shultz's statement denying Arafat's visa asserted that P.L.O. members were excluded from the U.S. "by virtue of their affiliation in an organization which engages in terrorism." One paragraph later, the statement pointed out that since visas are routinely issued to members of the P.L.O. permanent observer mission at the U.N., Arafat's group...