Word: laws
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...court in Berlin on as yet unspecified charges. The compromise will not please those who argue that, as President Nixon told the U.N. last month, "sky piracy cannot be ended as long as the pirates receive asylum." While most nations have stiff antihijacking statutes for their own citizens (U.S. law provides a maximum penalty of death), there is no international law on the subject. Nor is there yet much sentiment outside the U.S. for modifying the right of political asylum to dissuade hijackers...
...shrill. Hurling rocks and bottles and wielding a parking meter that had been wrenched out of the sidewalk, homosexuals rioted last summer in New York's Greenwich Village after police closed one of the city's 50 all-gay bars and clubs on an alleged liquor-law violation. Pressure from militant self-styled "homophiles" has forced political candidates' views about homosexuality into recent election campaigns in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Homosexuals have picketed businesses, the White House and the Pentagon, demanding an end to job discrimination and the right to serve in the Army without a dishonorable...
...since no self-respecting black academician would accept the post." Harvard had to take Guinier, "whose only postgraduate work was in the Law School and who ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan borough president in 1949 as candidate of the Communist-dominated American Labor party...
Dean Ford said that Guinier's appointment "can easily be defended in terms of his qualifications for leading the new department." Guinier studied at Harvard and City College of New York as an undergraduate, and got a law degree from New York University...
...Harvard, John M. Ferron, lecturer on Law at the Law School. Director of the Cambridge Community Legal Assistance Office, and one of those who started circulating the Harvard petition, said yesterday that he saw the Murphy amendment as a direct threat to legal reform only in such states as California and Florida, whose governors oppose broad legal services...