Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giffone added that if the ACLU investigation determines the administration discriminated against "Jews for Jesus," he will "do everything possible to make sure that this never happens again to any other, group." He declined to state for certain he will take legal action...
Jerry Platz, the "MIT Seekers" liaison, said the "Seekers" are "very opposed to the administration's decision and will support Giffone if he takes legal action against the university...
...middle class fear that instead of ushering in a new era of freedom, the revolution will result in an Islamic dictatorship as repressive as the Shah's regime. Those worries deepened last week when Khomeini passed along his guidelines for the reform of Iran's legal code. He ordered Justice Minister Assadollah Mobasheri to repeal all laws that "contravene Islam." Henceforth, all trials must end "in a final, absolute decision in a single phase." The right of women to seek divorces, established by a 1975 law enacted under the Shah, would be repealed. Corporal punishments, such as flogging...
...novel, Members of the Tribe, and in Simple Justice, documenting the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school segregation, the legal system has been an inspiring force for Richard Kluger. His latest novel, Star Witness, traces the life and crimes of Feminist Lawyer Tabor Hill. A woman with a hair-trigger wit, she could give lessons in politics to Machiavelli. An affair with a judge, a partnership in an exclusive firm, legal aid to the poor-she does it all, and she does it well. So does Kluger, who knows the layout of the corridors of small-city power down...
...Edward J. King Thursday signed a bill raising the legal drinking age in Massachusetts from 18 to 20 and said he plans to enforce the law next month, even though the state legislature this week removed the emergency preamble putting the law into effect April...