Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entirely correct in quoting Shevardnadze. He said that the fact of deploying armed forces in Afghanistan was in violation of Soviet laws, and it really was a violation of international law. I have my opinion about whether this was immoral or not -- this is a separate topic. Why did it happen? It was certainly the wrong decision. The Soviet Union was never planning to solve the Afghanistan problem with the help of its armed forces. It was fantasy to think that a military solution could be achieved by deploying a contingent of 100,000 in a mountainous country with...
...asked to bend the law for someone who broke the law." Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin was railing against the proposal, which the Senate passed by a 78- to-17 vote last week, to restore Oliver North's $23,000 military pension. It was halted after his July conviction for destroying Government documents related to the Iran-contra scandal...
Some Senators objected to passing what amounted to a private law for North sponsored by Jesse Helms of North Carolina. But Helms was persuaded by Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden to expand the bill so that it would apply to all former military men convicted of similar crimes. If the House concurs, Congress will be favoring government pensions to a select group of convicted felons who served in the military. Not that Ollie needs the money. He earns an estimated $25,000 a speech...
...York for the summer and I was looking for a job in an uptown law firm," Minnesota junior Paul Richards says. "It seems that one of the partners in the firm was a Harvard alumnus and when I mentioned that I was from the University of Minnesota, he responded with a large grin and a 15-minute onslaught of ribbing about the game...
...disadvantaged and under represented people of this country, we'd all love to hear it. But in the mean time, what purpose has he served by denying us counseling to seek jobs that enable us to make our own contributions to alleviating inequity and injustice? Marilynn Sager Harvard Law School, Class...