Word: legalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convincing the judge that he was competent to plead and then admitting guilt, Berkowitz may have started a new series of legal developments. Both his defense lawyers protested his plea, saying that he was denying himself the chance to be found not guilty by reason of insanity. They promised to appeal, but first Berkowitz will probably be sentenced to from 25 years to life on each of the six counts next week...
...being a lawyer. I had finally come to the realization [in 1965] that there was no other life for me but politics and public service. Even when my legal work was at its most interesting I never found it truly fulfilling. If all I had was my legal work, I would be mentally dead in two years and physically dead in four...
...nesting sites of the birds were given some legal protection when the land was officially recognized as a natural area by the Interior Department in 1971. But the raptors' prey base-the lands necessary to furnish the far-ranging predators with the ground squirrels, rabbits and other small animals necessary to their survival-was not. Now, expanded farming has reduced the amount of small game in the lands on either side of the canyon rim. Private holdings along the river increase the likelihood of speculation and development. Together, these growing threats could push the birds to the brink...
Most of the gang who were caught soon after the robbery received up to 30-year sentences. Those apprehended after the public excitement faded were given lesser terms. The money that was not recovered drained away in legal fees, brief good times and family support. Thousands of pounds stashed with friends evaporated for miscellaneous "expenses...
...psychological chains created by a racist system before they could win the struggle for full liberation. Biko and other black students at the universities of South Africa argued that until blacks learned attitudes of self-reliance and dignity--attitudes that have been suppressed by centuries of legal white supremacy--they could not win the fight against economic exploitation. It was not enough, they said, to work with liberal white students for majority rule. Black South Africans had to free themselves of any sense that they were dependent on whites, or that they had to prove they could be just like...