Word: legalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with which it maintains internal discipline. The discipline may be eased at times, but the mechanisms of control, especially through the Pao-wei forces, the secret police, remain at government disposal. In a report in November, Amnesty International, the human rights organization based in London recorded a number of legal outrages A teacher named Ho Chun-shu, for example, was said to have been executed at the beginning of 1978 for writing and distributing a "counterrevolutionary pamphlet." Last June, however, China released about 110,000 people who had been jailed since Mao's "antirightist" crack down...
...Peking "will not jeopardize the well-being of the people of Taiwan." The U.S.-Peking statement acknowledged that "there is but one China, and Taiwan is part of China" (a view shared by the Nationalists on Taiwan). It also specified that the U.S. recognizes Peking as the "sole legal government of China." But the statement went on to declare: "Within this context, the people of the U.S. will maintain cultural, commercial and other unofficial relations with the people of Taiwan...
...jail-'em-yourself law is constitutional. "If a woman can be attacked, take her assailant to trial and come away emptyhanded, women will be discouraged from going to court," says Summers, now working as a lawyer in Hartford. "I wanted to show assault victims that there is a legal remedy." The message may be getting through. A Connecticut women's group has begun passing out flyers reading, "For one dollar an hour you can keep a rapist in jail...
Timothy Stoen, who was chief legal adviser to the cult until shortly before Jones moved to Guyana, told TIME that money in Peoples Temple bank accounts around the world could total $20 million. Stoen himself set up two dummy corporations in 1975 for the Peoples Temple in Panama. One of them, called Briget, S.A., now has $2.5 million in a secret account, according to an American investigator. Said Stoen: "Jones wanted funds close by in case he had to quickly leave Guyana." U.S. investigators say Stoen and other top Jones aides also set up many personal accounts, and that...
Since September, all political activity has been banned by the military government of Premier Gholam Reza Azhari, an army general. In an effort to avoid a bloodbath, the Shah finally decreed that the government would consider the protest parade a legal demonstration of national mourning. By exercising such restraint, he tacitly acknowledged that, for the moment, the opposition forces controlled the streets. More important, he averted the risk of having the huge parade turn into a battle. Whether he also increased the chances of his own political survival remains to be seen...