Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most states parental rights to discipline their children are limited only by a patchwork of legal injunctions against serious physical injury and flagrant neglect. Members of the protective service must hide their own anger and proceed with a blend of cajolery, compassion and very limited powers of compulsion as they try to protect abused children. The welfare department's official charge, though, is with nothing less than "preserving healthy family life" in the state. Often, helping children means trying to bring parents to such a condition of emotional stability that they will no longer want to beat their kids...
Even if a deal with the Communists can be worked out, the act of transferring formal recognition from Taipei to Peking would raise a host of legal and legislative problems. The U.S. is tied to Taiwan by 59 bilateral treaties and agreements, plus many more multilateral ones. How many of these pacts could or should survive "derecognition"? What new legislation would be required to keep them in force? How could the U.S. continue to supply arms to a government whose legitimacy it no longer formally recognizes? Government lawyers have been preparing briefs on these and other questions, and the State...
...case is not entirely closed. Jascalevich still faces malpractice charges before the New Jersey board of medical examiners, which could bar him from practicing medicine. Farber and the Times, which has paid $285,000 in fines and $700,000 in legal costs, are appealing the contempt citations to the U.S. Supreme Court. Its decision could draw more clearly the line between a defendant's right to a fair trial and the First Amendment's protection of the press...
...County grand jury, Michaelides wrote County Prosecutor Edwin Baker a five-page letter denying any guilt. "When this tragic event took place, I was thoroughly examined," he wrote, "and exonerated of any blame." Michaelides tried to discredit the Bruce family in the letter and blamed them for his own legal problems. He claimed his wife "was a criminally mistreated and unhappy person." He accused her mother of "vicious and dehumanizing" verbal assaults and said her opposition to the marriage demoralized Alexandra. He threatened: "If a more equitable approach to my case is not adopted in the near future, I have...
...songwriter who hasn't passed through-even sometimes settled in-territory that Dylan explored and posted years ago. All Dylan has been collecting on his debts lately, however, is puzzled, sometimes indifferent concert audiences and a critical bloodying for his latest album, Street-Legal...