Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE LONG and controversial Mashpee trial finally ended last week, the Wamponoag Indians of Mashpee, Massachusetts had ample cause to doubt the white man's system of justice. And his logic: the federal jury of eight white men and four white women ruled that the Wamponoags were not a tribe on four legally crucial dates, but were a tribe on four legally crucial dates, but were a tribe on two other dates. The confusing and contradictory decision proved a fitting ending to a trial ineptly-handled at best, and morally questionable at worst. The jury's verdict...
...leading scorer in Massachusetts in 1976, McDonald led his Winthrop High School Squad to an undefeated season and the State Division 1 championship. McDonald defies hockey logic at almost six feet and 150 pounds, and Murray calls him "a snake with the puck, an excellent stickhandler." Although sidelined with a dislocated elbow for two to three weeks from an injury sustained in Tuesday's 7-4 triumph over St. Lawrence, McDonald has the third highest total point tally on the team...
...gesture toward the West that Washington failed to follow up. Then in October 1973 he caught Israel off guard with his Yom Kippur attack across the Suez. All these events, like his mission to Jerusalem, appear to have been dictated by a powerful and almost desperate internal logic...
...office had prepared the report more than a year ago, lamely admitted that he had not got around to reading it and that indeed the Frankfurter Allgemeine article had "actually enlightened me." Chancellor Helmut Schmidt also denied having known the extent of the Lutze case. With irrefutable if infuriating logic, his spokesman argued: "How could the Chancellor know more than Leber?" As the initial shock sunk in. the spy affair rapidly turned political. Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl demanded Leber's resignation and charged that Schmidt also "bears responsibility...
Shaw finally asks when mankind will be capable of accepting its saints. Here, his logic falters. Saints exist not to redeem men but to shame them...