Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although the outrages you report of the Philadelphia penal system [Sept. 20] are by no means unusual, there is clearly enough cruelty involved to "spring" many prisoners under the Eighth Amendment which guarantees no cruel or unusual punishment. What I cannot understand is that the legal profession with its intellect and the A.C.L.U. with its moral superiority do not seem to have found any test case...
...succeed Ball, the President immediately named Washington Post Editor James Russell Wiggins, 64, thus rewarding a loyal supporter and astounding even those Lyndon watchers inured to his most bizarre moves. A widely known journalist, Wiggins has no legal or diplomatic experience. When he was tapped, he was preparing to retire from the Post (see PRESS) to his 80-acre Maine farm and a weekly newspaper. Wiggins came to Washington in 1933 as correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, rose to editor before becoming assistant to the publisher of the New York Times. In 1947 he joined the Post...
Belated Advice. During the debate, the charges raised repeatedly against Fortas in Judiciary Committee hearings were aired anew. No one questioned his legal brilliance. Fortas' opponents complained instead about his status as the appointee of a lame-duck President, and his role in enhancing the Warren Court's supposed softness on pornography and criminals. A typical objection came from Dirksen's son-in-law, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker: "In continuing to counsel the President on such matters as the Viet Nam war, the riots, legislative proposals and the 1966 State of the Union address, Justice Fortas...
...constitution, no matter how flimsy it is. Yet Greek people are desperately afraid that the document will be hailed the world over as a step towards democracy. The fact is, according to Greeks, that the fraudulent constitution is merely a trick by the regime to give their rule a legal rationale and to maintain the all important American support...
...constitution rationalizes the powers which the junta seized in April, 1967. It seems to insure liberties, but there are too many loopholes which the ruling group could use at will to stop any burgconing movement toward freedom. The new document significantly centralizes the government, which has become more legal but no less dictatorial...