Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constraints of the Constitution." Some of Mitchell's critics also complain that his background as a Wall Street expert on municipal bonds-about as far removed from criminal practice or civil rights as a lawyer can get-was not the best preparation for the Government's chief legal office...
...unanimous vote, the Bundesrat, the upper house of the West German Parliament, last week passed a law clos ing the legal loophole through which as-yet-undetected German war criminals would have escaped punishment. Under the old law, war criminals who had not been caught and indicted by next Dec. 31 would have been immune from future prosecution. The new law renders them liable to prosecution for another ten years. It also lifts entirely the statute of limitations on genocide, thus subjecting the perpetrators of the most heinous Nazi crimes to possible punishment as long as they live...
...Dean Robert Farley was eased out of the University of Mississippi law school for insisting that James Meredith had a legal right to attend Ole Miss. As Farley's successor, the trustees appointed a safer man: Joshua M. Morse III, an Ole Miss alumnus and law professor who has opposed Farley's subversive ideas. But Dean Morse, now 46, soon showed signs of heresy himself. He strayed North for a year of graduate study at Yale law school, returned with a sense of social mission that dramatically changed Ole Miss-and has now doomed him to Farley...
...were cheered by 4,500 rebel students, among them sons of Mississippi's leading segregationists. At one point, the Ole Miss law school enrolled 15 black students-more than any other non-Negro law school in the U.S. Not only that: some faculty members became active in a legal-services program, sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity, which took on a school-desegregation suit in one Mississippi county and challenged the residency requirements of the state's welfare laws...
...British magazine Mayfair. Today, recalling her youthful display, 23-year-old Caroline Coon says casually, "It's not the sort of image for a social worker, is it?" For Caroline is now a golden girl of another sort. As one of the organizers of a legal-aid agency called "Release," she has become a protector of youthful British drug addicts and pot users who are in trouble with...