Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waterline. Meanwhile, sailors trained fire hoses on the Greenpeace, flooding her engines, while Navy SEAL frogmen cut the fuel lines of one of two antinuke motorboats trying to disrupt the test. "A terrible outrage . . . an unbridled act of aggression!" cried Greenpeace's executive director as the group prepared legal action against the Navy. Just | outside the launch area, the battle -- and the test-firing -- were monitored by a Soviet trawler bristling with electronic equipment...
While businesses and individuals may conceal their assets for purposes that are completely legal, or dubious at worst, the systems set up for their convenience can be perversely efficient at helping drug barons launder as much as $100 billion a year in U.S. proceeds. "It is hard to understand why we failed for so long to institute adequate controls," says Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. The state of regulation is "so lackadaisical," says Kerry, "it's almost damnable...
...Gymnasium, the 2,714 delegates overwhelmingly nominated as party leader Gregor Gysi, a reformist lawyer who at 41 becomes the youngest Communist boss in Eastern Europe. Only three months ago, Gysi came under withering attack by hard-liners for representing the opposition group New Forum in its bid for legal status. Now, said Gysi after winning election, the Communists in East Germany will be merely "one party among others...
There was never a chance that Taiwan's long-ruling Kuomintang would be defeated in national elections earlier this month. The suspense centered on whether the Democratic Progressive Party, in its maiden contest as a legal opposition, would even dent the KMT's armor. The results, announced last week, surprised many observers. D.P.P. candidates won 21 out of 101 available seats in the Legislative Yuan, enabling the party for the first time to sponsor new bills...
...Congress of People's Deputies began its winter session in the Kremlin, hundreds of parliamentarians supported debate on altering the party's legal status, indicating the idea is gaining popularity as reforms shake the Soviet Baltic and Eastern Europe...