Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge delayed sentencing until June 12 and ordered new psychiatric tests. Both legal and medical experts were left to ponder a fresh set of problems in the case. Among them: If Berkowitz was so deranged last week, had he been competent to plead guilty two weeks earlier? Another question: What had he meant last month when a court-appointed psychiatrist asked what he planned to do at the sentencing? "I know, but I'm not telling," he had replied. It sounded, thought some, as if he were planning his outrageous performance. "This will be the third psychiatric report," complained...
...under way, there have been 56 major riots and demonstrations, five deaths, 8,100 injuries and 1,900 arrests. The first protests occurred when a group of farmers holding acreage needed for the airport refused to sell and the government confiscated their land. That highhandedness, though achieved through legal channels, caused a storm of protest and quickly brought the youthful rebels to the farmers' cause. As air pollution, noise and other environmental issues acquired clout in the 1970s, Narita became the ritual target of militants with almost any quality-of-life complaint...
Will it be legal in Michigan...
...thousand letters from couples seeking volunteer mothers, simply because there are so few white babies available for adoption. Says he: "There's a four-or five-year wait now, if a couple is lucky enough to get on a list at all." As a result, despite potential legal problems, some have already opted for surrogate mothers. Debbie and George, a couple who came to light after Keane's publicity, say they asked a good friend to bear George's child. Debbie herself impregnated the woman with a tube filled with her husband's semen. All three...
...aroused hopes among prisoners that resistance to the regime would spread out side the camps. Instead, change was ordered from above. In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev set out to disband most of the slave labor camps and release millions of prisoners. Solzhenitsyn hardly mentions this fateful event, stressing instead the legal, institutional and spiritual heritage of Stalinism in the present...