Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.C.M.J., Krouse said: "Failure to observe the guidelines of this executive order is not in my mind a criminal offense." In any event, finding a middle course between the needs of military discipline and compassion for the plight of prisoners of war will be a difficult job of legal navigation...
Nixon would like to shift Operation Head Start, one of the few major successes of the war on poverty, to HEW. The poverty program's effort to furnish legal aid to the poor may be assigned to the Justice Department. Nixon and Moynihan would also like to scrap the Job Corps, which they consider inefficient. But he would need congressional approval for such steps-sanction that would not be easily obtained...
Serious Difficulties. With greater or less enthusiasm, the Social Democrats and Kiesinger favor 1) signing the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, 2) banning Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden's reactionary National Democrats in order to deprive neo-Nazis of a shield of respectability, and 3) eliminating the legal deadline on murder charges to allow the judiciary to weed out the last remaining Nazi war criminals. Strauss takes the opposite position on each issue, and has been using his growing strength in his Hausmacht (power base) to give weight to his views...
...national party. They confidently concluded that money would be no problem; enough businessmen could be found to bankroll the expansion. His adamant opposition to the worldwide nonproliferation treaty proposed by Washington and Moscow plays on the widespread German resentment of big-power Diktats. His rejection of a unilateral legal attack on the extreme right stems from his instinctive feeling that the German electorate is far more upset by the radicalism of the New Left. His opposition to the abolition of the statute of limitations echoes the feelings of many Germans that the sack-cloth-and-ashes period is over...
...became clear to John and Effie that separation was the only way back to life and freedom. Each one, separately and privately, seems to have set about trying to get rid of the other. The question was, how? Divorce was impossible except on the ground of adultery, a legal procedure regarded as unthinkably damaging socially. A dreadful, though never mutually acknowledged, duel began. As Effie came to see it, Ruskin was bent on forcing her to leave him not merely by his neglect but by throwing her at various gentlemen friends, including Millais, hoping to involve her in what...