Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination last spring. Said the official: "Daley went crazy. He couldn't believe that his city could do it to him." Daley publicly rebuked his police superintendent for being too soft on the rioters-even though most responsible law officers around the nation commended the Chicago police for their behavior. The mayor compounded his mistake by issuing his approval of shooting looters. The overall effect was to undermine the police department's chain of command and encourage the ranks to react violently at the later civil disturbances. That...
Their argument is that such things are a violation of the Soviet constitution. Their tactic is essentially an appeal to law, and that in itself represents an advance over the days of Stalin, when such a protest would have been meaningless. That it is not entirely meaningless now is demonstrated by the fact that the secret police are also concerned with fabricating cases that they can prop up in a Soviet court. The KGB effort to peddle Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts abroad is a search for a pretext to arrest him. Stalin's police never required pretexts for anything they...
...sent their novels abroad to be published (under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak). They were condemned, under Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Republic, for "dissemination of slanderous inventions" with the purpose of "subverting the Soviet regime." Since then, an even more general law has been passed removing the need to prove subversive purpose. Sinyavsky got seven years' hard labor, Daniel five. Their judge later received the Order of Lenin. But petitions and letters in the writers' support were signed by hundreds of intellectuals...
...before the referendum. Among them are two ex-Premiers: liberal George Papandreou and conservative Panayotis Kanellopoulos. The gesture seems conciliatory, but in fact is largely empty. Even if the freed opposition leaders want to fight the constitution, their access to the voters is restricted by press censorship under martial law. Nor is the government radio likely to find any time for them. The amnesty does not apply to the 2,000 Greek Communists and other far-leftists interned on the Aegean islands of Leros and Yiaros, or to 20 senior military officers who backed King Constantine's unsuccessful countercoup...
...Political parties would be made more democratic by a requirement that their leaders be elected in open conventions rather than chosen secretly. The constitution goes into effect as soon as approved-except for guarantees of such individual rights as free speech and free assembly. The government can maintain martial law as long as it likes...