Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the Turkish Cypriots thought they knew the truth. Said their spokesman, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk: "Using his so-called 5,000 'legal' forces, Makarios will exercise pressure on the Turks to deprive them of their arms. In short, the plan of Makarios is either to destroy or to enslave the Turks of Cyprus...
...years, in Sweden, premarital intercourse has been widely condoned, and the government provides legal abortions when deemed "in the mother's interest." The result, warned the doctors, has been a tide of extramarital pregnancies and mounting venereal disease-with most of the victims young people. Sweden's gonorrhea rate has jumped 75% in five years, and of last year's new cases, 52% were among teenagers...
Earl Warren personally asked Craig to take the job. Craig, who has been confirmed by the Senate as a federal judge in Arizona, pondered for a few days, then agreed, as a "public service of the legal profession." While praising Craig's appointment, Eugene Rostow, dean of the Yale Law School, had a further suggestion. International concern over the circumstances of President Kennedy's death, said Rostow, would best be satisfied if commission hearings were public, "as nearly as possible in the familiar pattern of a trial...
...female sex evidently unfit it for many of the occupations of civil life." Today in the U.S., the woman lawyer lives and works in a society that has long since accepted a Myra Bradwell's right to practice law, but where many are still hesitant about taking their legal problems to an Arabella Mansfield...
...Alternative. To duck such opposition, some women lawyers go into practice with their husbands. Others choose jobs with such organizations as the Legal Aid Society, where the pay is low but the work is varied and women are welcome. Some of the ablest go into politics or civil rights work-or both, as did Mrs. Constance Baker Motley, who has argued Supreme Court cases as Assistant Counsel for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and last month became the first Negro woman to be elected to the New York state senate...