Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your penetrating Essay "Criminals Should Be Cured, Not Caged" [March 29] vividly describes the appalling tradition of man's inhumanity to those fellow men who have been labeled criminals. You close with a plea for the "law-abiding public" to understand the offender's basic human needs. The President's Crime Commission reports that 91% of Americans have committed acts for which they might have been imprisoned or jailed. Must we not then ask: Where shall we find the law-abiding public? And who needs to understand whom...
Although 1965 marked the enactment of the voting rights law and King's successful campaign in Selma, Ala., it also brought the riots in Watts. To many Negroes, the pace of gain was too slow and too meager. King went northward, turning his battle toward economic issues in New York City, Los Angeles...
Ulbricht's new constitution is more ominous for what it omits. The new document has dropped entirely the sections from the 1949 law that guaranteed freedom of artistic expression, academic pursuits and scientific inquiry. The 1949 constitution spelled out in detail the rights of both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches to give religious instruction in schools, enjoy state protection of religious ceremonies and receive financial support through government-collected taxes. But the new constitution makes no mention whatsoever of the rights of churches. Many East German Protestants fear that Ulbricht will use this ambiguity as a lever to force...
...from his fellow Frenchmen. Unlike such helpless victims of the public and press as Lyndon Johnson or Harold Wilson, however, he has found a way to intimidate and punish his critics. In 1881, when the President of France was a powerless and nonpolitical figurehead, the National Assembly passed a law against insulting him "by speeches, cries, threats uttered in public places, or by writings, posters or notices exhibited to the public." In its first 77 years on the books, the law was invoked only nine times. Then, on his accession in 1959, De Gaulle and his backers found...
Lincoln said, "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law." If law and order is removed, nothing will prevent the racial discord within America from turning into a civil war, White against Black. This can be no man's dream; it is a nightmare. Eugene L. Herzog...