Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Within hours of each other last week, the Governors of California and Nevada signed bills imposing fines of as much as $1,000 and sentences of up to one year behind bars for possession of the hallucinogenic drug LSD. This week a similar measure is expected to become law in New Jersey. In the weird light of LSD's often nightmarish effects, it might seem that such a crackdown would be widely applauded. On the contrary, U.S. legislators and drug experts are actually engaged in a strenuous debate over the degree and kind of controls that should be imposed...
...Nevada and California became, on Monday, the first states to legislate against the use of LSD. Both states allow LSD to be employed in scientific research or in supervised medical care, but prohibit unlicensed manufacture, general sale, or possession of the drug...
...takes wobbly aim at a problem created by the old law: the fact that thousands of New Yorkers seek quickie divorces in Nevada, if they can wait six weeks, or in Mexico, where a day suffices. All this evades the usual U.S. rule that divorces may be granted only by the state where one of the partners actually lives. To enforce that rule, the new law says that a New Yorker retains his domicile unless he gives up his New York residence for 18 months...
Critics claim that this provision's use against the typical Nevada or Idaho divorce is barred by the U.S. Constitution, which commands all states to give "full faith and credit" to one another's court judgments. As for Mexican divorces, the New York Court of Appeals has declared that their validity does not depend on domicile requirements. In short, New Yorkers who divorce elsewhere may be as safe as ever...
...units of the Big Red One, the Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province by the 101st Airborne Division, whose troopers have killed 149 of the enemy in the past 20 days...