Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political spectrum from two Communists to the Archbishop of Caracas was at work on the same problem in Venezuela-where 1.7% of the landholders own 74% of the land. Last week President Romulo Betancourt asked Congress to pass into law the commission's recommendations for a "peaceful, legal and orderly reform." No drastic social surgery, the bill's sensible goal is to force untilled land into cultivation and thereby reduce the $135 million that Venezuela now spends annually to import food...
...first part of the Seminar, Mohamed el Dessuky, principal of a boy's high school in Egypt, and Baruch Hadar, Israeli legal and economic advisor, spoke on Egyptian education and Israeli politics. Dessuky, commented that the growth of social consciousness in the nationalistic movements following the two world wars has resulted in new agencies for social progress and, since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952, a new era in educational advancements...
...ironies of history is that in the land where once the Romans hammered out the basic statutes of law and justice for the Western world, their successors in the modern nation of Italy are caught in as tangled and Kafkaesque a legal code as besets any country. Wrestling with precedents that go back to the Twelve Tables of 450 B.C., to the Caesars and Hadrian and Justinian, plagued by remnants of the Code Napoleon and the harsh Fascist glorifications of police and state, baffled judges let dockets pile up. Cases drag on, and prisons overflow with prisoners still awaiting trial...
...modern Italy's need of amnesty springs from the basic injustices of its present laws and the overcrowding of its jails. The Italian constitution of 1948 provides for a form of habeas corpus and declares the citizen innocent until proved guilty, but under Italy's outmoded legal procedures and the operation of Italy's judges-most of whom, while not Fascists, got their legal training under Fascism-suspects often languish years in jail awaiting trial. As one Italian lawyer put it last week: "The amnesty is a shotgun blasting at ills that shouldn't exist...
...Arizona location, Air Force Reserve Colonel James Stewart, playing an Army major in a blood-and-mud World War II movie titled Mountain Road, stepped front and center, got an almost-legal field promotion. The film's technical adviser, retired Army Brigadier General Frank Dorn, pinned stars on the collar of "Major" Stewart's soiled fatigue uniform. Cinemactor Stewart, a World War II bomber pilot and group commander (20 missions), had just got word from Washington that the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved his promotion to real-life brigadier rank. His upgrading had been blocked since...