Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bourne contended that what he had done was "neither legally nor morally wrong." But legal experts say that he actually violated both federal and state laws by failing to use Metsky's name on the prescription. In a separate statement, Metsky claimed that, because she was busy, she asked a friend, Toby Long, to have the prescription filled on the way home from her job in Virginia...
...problems stem mostly from legal battles with his former wife Betty, 54, who lives at Lovejoy, the 1,400-acre family plantation southeast of Atlanta, where she runs a meat brokerage business. For years it seemed they had a perfect political marriage. But he drank, she says, and the marriage deteriorated. She came down with the Washington-wife blues and started seeing a psychiatrist. One evening in 1976, shortly after hog-killing time, Betty Talmadge suddenly recovered. While watching the news on TV at Lovejoy, she discovered that the Senator had filed for divorce. She went to the next room...
...this week to lay the groundwork for more talks. Vance himself will return to the Middle East to chair another meeting between the Israelis and the Egyptians in early August. Washington hopes to synthesize the positions of the two sides and broaden the next session to include defense and legal experts who could then carry the talks on into the details of withdrawal, new borders and security guarantees...
...face, the Soviet legal system has many similarities with those of Continental European countries. A written constitution provides for freedom of speech, press and religion, and trials are to be fair and open. Yet just what the constitution means in a Soviet context can be illustrated by a pre-arrest chat a few years ago between a KGB officer and a dissident: the constitution, insisted the dissident, protects free speech. "Please," the KGB man is said to have responded, "we're having a serious conversation...
...Attorney General John Mitchell, we have Crispin Stewart, a powerful Pennsylvania senator with Presidential ambitions. The Mitchells' young daughter, Martha, has been turned into Alice, a grade school science teacher in her 20s. The last character in the play, Dave Castle, is the senator's cool, climbing, clean-cut legal aide, not too unlike John Dean...