Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neighborhood paraphernalia dealers blossomed as fast as the drug culture, flowering on corners across the nation with a wide assortment of cigarette rolling papers, small pipes, cocaine spoons, psychedelic lights and other legal appurtenances for high living. But for many officials,the head shops serve as a too-blatant reminder of the losing battle against drugs...
...people." At week's end, the Khomeini strategy seemed to be one of waiting for members of parliament and the regency council to resign. So far 72 out of 200 deputies in the legislature have resigned; if half do so, a Khomeini aide said, Bakhtiar's government has no legal basis...
THIS WEEK the Massachusetts legislature will consider legislation which would raise the legal drinking age in the Commonwealth...
...recognize that a bill to raise the legal drinking age will inevitably pass--its success is too important to new Gov. Edward J. King, who campaigned on a platform of law-and-order politics. If the drinking age must go up, then it should be raised only to age 19. At age 18, high school students are too young to be able to buy liquor, either for themselves or for even younger classmates...
Raising the legal drinking age any higher seems pointless and may in fact aggravate the problems which the new legislation is attempting to address. All five neighboring states now have an 18-year-old drinking age, and teenagers would be able to get liquor elsewhere, simply by driving over the border. Drinking would move into back alleys and front seats. In addition, the proposed law would exceed its stated intent of removing alcohol from the school yards by discriminating against the thousands of students attending Massachusetts colleges...