Word: laws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students holding the embassy are acting in violation of international law, but U.S. intervention in Iran was hardly legal either. Before the takeover of the embassy, the Iranian government made numerous attempts to legally extradite the Shah through diplomatic channels. All attempts failed. The students' demands are addressed to a system which exerts its influence on Iran through force; perhaps they feel that only through force can their demands be obtained and U.S. violations of international law and basic morality redressed...
McGuire offered no explanation for the sentence, which is the maximum punishment for manslaughter under Massachusetts state law...
...cancer, creating a mood conducive to accepting him on humanitarian grounds. Only a few months earlier the press and the U.S. Senate were raising hell about the execution of the Shah's military chiefs and ex-cronies in Iran. They complained bitterly about the violation of due process of law. But they conveniently forgot that the Shah's own military courts (which were unconstitutional) tried as terrorists anyone brave enough to protest his regime. The verdict was often decided beforehand. Where were the passionate defenders of law then...
...Shah systematically dismantled the judicial system of Iran and the country's guarantees of personal and social liberties. His regime consistently violated the codes of law and justice, destroying the dignity of our people by treating them like backward savages to be pulled with an iron hand out of the middle ages into the light of the modern era. Nearly every source of creative, artistic and intellectual endeavor in our culture was suppressed...
Massachusetts is the last state to implement the law. The federal government pushed the law through to make a uniform motor vehicle code, and the government threatened to withhold the state's national energy funds if the state did not pass the bill...