Word: levi
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...number of other states are also moving toward liberalizing the laws on personal pot use, and Attorney General Edward Levi has suggested that the Justice Department may recommend at least a drastic reduction in the federal criminal penalties. Buying a pack of joints at the corner grocery may still be years - or decades - away. But right now the hardfisted prohibition of pot is gradually loosening...
...commission found "nothing to indicate that the CIA abused the function." Nonetheless, the report strongly criticized the Justice Department for having illegally "abdicated its statutory duties" in relinquishing the authority to prosecute American spooks and the CIA for getting involved "directly in forbidden law-enforcement activities." Attorney General Edward Levi ended the agreement last January soon after learning about it. Aides reported that he is prepared to prosecute, where it is warranted, CIA employees and agents for any crimes committed while the agreement was in force, though the statute of limitations for most cases expired...
Wilson conceded yesterday that numerous people have told him that his name is on the list of people under consideration by the special search committee that has been looking for a president since Edward Levi resigned that post to become Attorney General four months...
Daly said that he thought the University of Chicago would be "very very lucks to get [Wilson] because he is a person of a quality to match Ed Levi and that is a very high quality indeed...
...addition to "calling attention to" deterrence of crime, perhaps Attorney General Levi should also call attention to the negative influence of many TV programs...