Word: legalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...countryside, the rebels woo the peasants by striking at wealthy | landowners. During the recent coffee harvest, the F.M.L.N. decreed that growers should pay their pickers nearly twice the legal minimum wage, which can be less than $2 a day. When some landholders refused to cooperate, armed guerrillas hijacked truckloads of newly harvested beans and redistributed the stolen booty to the pickers. Other landowners who balked at paying a "war tax" to finance the insurgency have been burned...
...advocates of a political solution. Chief of Staff Shomron told the Knesset that the I.D.F. could not eradicate the intifadeh because "it expresses the struggle of nationalism." But however much the generals yearn for a political settlement, they prefer to use every weapon available to fight the uprising without legal and political constraints. The army's job, Shomron added, is "to enable the political echelon to negotiate from a position of strength...
Defense lawyers quickly launched a legal assault against the new system. The result was chaos, with 158 federal judges declaring the arrangement unconstitutional and 116 ruling it to be proper. No one could tell what penalties would be imposed or whether they would stick. Moving briskly to end the confusion, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the commission and its rules by a vote...
When Baltimore artist James Earl Reid created a life-size statue of a homeless family, he intended it for an event called the Pageant of Peace. Instead of bringing peace, however, the sculpture has sparked a bitter legal battle over the nation's copyright laws...
...seven months since Grosz succeeded the long-ruling Janos Kadar as head of Hungary's Communist Party, dozens of independent political associations have begun organizing. Though there is no legal provision for such parties, the reform-minded Grosz regime has not challenged them. Communist regimes have not been known for power sharing, and skeptics wonder if a true multiparty system will emerge. But Karoly Ravasz, spokesman for the | Independent Smallholders party, was convinced that the change was genuine. Said he: "We are now on the road of a pluralist society...