Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilkins, executive director of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People; and Martin Luther King, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Each has explored broad pathways to Negro advancement: Randolph in the labor movement, Wilkins by affirming legal rights, King by awakening the nation's conscience, Young by opening up economic opportunity. None of the advances came easily or swiftly...
...West Bank's economy, some 25 Israeli bank branches have opened in the area, and last week the Israeli pound was made legal tender along with the Jordanian dinar. The Jeru salem government has virtually adopted the former Jordanian budget for the West Bank, including development plans for road building and other public works totaling $5,600,000 this year. All former local officials, including all the West Bank mayors and most city employees, have stayed on their jobs under Israeli rule. Wherever possible, Israel is keeping Jordanian law and custom intact. Thus schoolchildren will get their books free...
...violence flares in U.S. ghettos, legal questions smolder in the embers: If the state is obliged to maintain civil order, must it indemnify the citizen for property loss and personal injury from riots...
...Denver Judge Ted Rubin, conceded that some of the necessary changes will cost money and irritate police as well as judges. But on the whole, he predicted, the gains will outweigh the disadvantages. "The present system, which shuns the adversary system and prefers flexible and informal deliberations, denies consistent legal protection to the child. As a result, the child does not understand himself or the system. By incorporation of constitutional safeguards into this system, individualized justice can become a reality...
...makes a city, county or state liable for riot damages unless it has somehow acted negligently. Even then, many governmental bodies are protected by sovereign immunity, a musty theory that public monies can be used only for the general public, not to compensate individuals, such as riot victims. But legal scholars contend that sovereign immunity is unjust, illogical, and riddled with exceptions. Moreover, courts have gradually eroded or discarded the doctrine in several states. Once sovereign immunity is removed as a defense, a city or county is liable much like an individual charged with negligent performance of duty...