Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, intolerant city authorities would probably have harassed PUMA for sponsoring such a perfectly legal party. But a relaxed atmosphere prevailed, and the few men who came looking for "dates" were disappointed; PUMA was throwing a party and nothing else. The evening's one disturbance occurred when PUMA members, highly sensitive to any publicity that might be damaging to the group or might invade anyone's privacy, argued with several photographers over the ground rules for picture taking...
...more of a social service organization. They often help out by bringing sandwiches and coffee to prostitutes spending the night in the Boston Police Department's detention center, usually leaving their telephone number with detainees--primarily streetwalkers. PUMA will provide any women who call them with referrals to medical, legal or baby-sitting services...
Even more important, it would protect illegal immigrants from exploitation by making them legal. As of now, illegal aliens form a cheap, defenseless pool of workers, unprotected by American labor laws. As Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall has written, "Undocumented workers are subject to blackmail of every conceivable sort. If they complain to their employers about their paltry wages and their unsafe working conditions, they run the risk of being turned in by those owners to the INS." Almost slaves now, these people would gain, from Carter's proposal, the rights of American workers...
...order is new evidence that the court may be unwilling to extend any more constitutional protections for journalists. The court had ruled in 1972 that reporters can be compelled to testify in cases involving crimes they have witnessed, but never extended that requirement to other legal proceedings. If courts in other states embrace the Idaho decision, any aggrieved citizen can force a reporter to disclose his source-or go to jail-simply by suing for libel...
...taking on the legal battle, though, the NLRB has guaranteed that in any further drives the hospital will not be able to use legal appeals as a delaying tactic. The Massachusetts Hospital Workers have made the way that much easier for the next unionizing drive...