Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of Boston-area Iranian students and supporters announced preparations yesterday for a rally on Monday, as part of the "peaceful, legal protests" they plan to continue until the Shah is extradited to Iran...
...They were trying to play policeman but they really had no legal force," Elsie P. Mitchell, acting director of the CBA, said yesterday. "It was completely arbitrary," she added...
ABOUT HALF OF THE Iranian students at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced this week that they will refuse to verify their student status by appearing before federal immigration officials unless President Carter's order requiring such action is proved legal. The students maintain correctly that Carter's action represents a "classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing mood...
While Carter's handling of the Iranian crisis has generally been admirable, his order requiring Iranian students to redocument their status aims at the wrong people: he has singled out innocent individuals for legal harrassment, an unethical and undoubtedly ineffective way to get at the terrorists...
Last fall the students sumbitted five reforms to the Faculty, including equalizing student-faculty composition, prohibiting legal counsel if both parties agree allowing the release of transcripts if both parties agree, establishing a board of appeals, and barring hearsay evidence...