Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice but to call for a special prosecutor. The reasonlies in the provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, a Watergate-inspired measure designed to keep an Administration from sheltering its own people. When serious accusations are made against an official, the Attorney General must investigate and call for a special prosecutor, unless he finds the charges "so unsubstan- tiated that no further investigation or prosecution is warranted." Oddly enough, the terms of that very same act prevented Civiletti from learning enough about the charges to come to such a judgment. He could not grant witnesses immunity...
...become a museum, crammed with grim mementos of the fallen regime's barbarity. On display are handcuffs, chains, bamboo cages and iron bars that were applied, red hot, to the genitals of prisoners. On a blackboard are inscribed the jailers' instructions to their victims: " 1. You must answer in conformity with the questions I ask you. 2. During beatings or electrocution you must not cry loudly. 3. If you disobey any of my regulations, you will get either ten strokes of the whip or five electric shocks." Said Curator Ing Pech, 52, an electrical engineer...
...tough. At least five people have been executed in the past month for crimes ranging from embezzlement to murder. Even in cases involving juvenile offenders, the courts show little leniency. Rejecting arguments that teen-age criminals should be forgiven for their mistakes, the Tianjin Daily sternly warned: "All criminals must be punished according to the laws...
Besides coping with obstreperous labor leaders, the new President must also develop a strategy for curbing the army's insatiable tendency to intervene in governmental affairs. She also faces potential opposition from disenchanted civilian politicians. Gueiler has no illusions about the difficulty of her task. Asked if she had a remedy for Bolivia's chronic political instability, Gueiler replied: "That is a question that I sincerely wish I had an answer...
...attachment order must be followed by court trial in which Morgan Guaranty is expected to argue that it needs to hold onto the shares until Tehran guarantees that its loans will be repaid. Meanwhile, more asset seizures seem likely. Asserted an officer of a New York City multinational bank: "We are going to grab every Iranian asset in sight. There is already a line of banks halfway down the block in West Germany waiting to do the same thing...