Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acknowledging the presence of evidence sufficient to warrant an investigation into criminal charges brought against the deposed Shah; 2) expressing its willingness to extradite the ex-dictator out of respect for the Iranian people's quest for justice; [then] 3) pleading inability to do this because of legal restrictions. If the U.S. Government makes such an announcement it would, I personally feel, open the way for a solution...
...only a vague notion of how many Iranians, legal or illegal, are actually in the U.S. Last January, after the Iranian students became a highly visible minority by demonstrating against the Shah, U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell asked the INS for the exact number in the country. He was appalled to find that it was not available. To try to provide some kind of estimate, the INS got on the phone to colleges around the country and produced a figure of 50,000. Now the agency has combed through its files again and increased the estimate...
...reacted skeptically to Botha's proposals. Says Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches: "He is talking about applying an inhuman system more humanely. Things are changing, but there has been no fundamental change." Black leaders and even the country's white legal Establishment were shocked last week when a judge in the sleepy Natal town of Pietermaritzburg handed down a death sentence to James Mange, a militant, charged with plotting an attack on a police station. Mange was only the second person convicted of treason in South Africa since...
Benton makes no extravagant claims for his new film. Says he: "The picture isn't meant to be a film about the in justices of the legal system or about whether fathers or mothers are better qualified to raise kids. The film is, above all, a love story and a story about marriage...
...newly-formed committee charged police with allowing harassment from "right-wing student extremists" at a recent Boston University rally and said they would have legal observers on hand for Monday's noon rally at Government Center...