Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington's puppet, he is also motivated by his own greed, which has resulted in the alienation of much of the bourgeoisie in recent years. In past years U.S. officials have had to intervene on the diplomatic level to overcome differences between the wealthy Conservatives, for years the only legal opposition party, and Somoza's National Liberal Party. The main U.S. concern has been for the bourgeoisie to present a united front against the Sandinistaled popular threat...
...principal obstacle to the possibility of any real democratic change in Nicaragua. Those most enthusiastic about negotiations are the business and financial sectors that have a vested interest in seeing certain aspects of the present social disorder preserved, while the people and their vanguard the FSLN know that the legal and economic structures must be totally overhauled if Nicaragua is to be able to use her abundant natural resources and national territory for her own development and thereby pull the country out of the poverty and oppression that have resulted from more than 40 years of imperialism and dictatorship...
Labor Law Reform. The Administration supported the union-backed bill to tighten rules covering unfair labor practices by management and to speed up legal proceedings when complaints are brought against employers before the National Labor Relations Board. The House passed the bill, but conservatives managed to kill it with a filibuster in the Senate...
Little understood outside legal circles, this role is crucial to shaping the law. By rejecting two-thirds of all the cases the Government could appeal, McCree acts as a gatekeeper for the overburdened courts. In effect, he decides which issues involving the Federal Government-from the meaning of an agency regulation to the meaning of the Constitution-need to be finally resolved and which issues can be left to simmer. Last week, for example, McCree okayed a Government appeal on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, which is trying to establish that it has the right to investigate makers...
...McCree, Bakke posed a particularly hard dilemma. Sympathetic to the civil rights movement-as a federal judge, he ruled frequently in favor of busing to desegregate schools-he is also known for lawyerly caution and balance. Comments one legal scholar: "He thinks like a lawyer, not a civil rights activist." Bakke's fallout will create further dilemmas. The Supreme Court has agreed to review a federal district court order forcing...