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...July, Governor John Dempsey signed a broad new penal code that becomes effective in October...
...medical and legal authorities had hoped that the marijuana penalties would be reduced for two reasons: 1) they are so harsh as to make the law unenforceable, and 2) there is still no conclusive proof that the drug is harmful. The professionals were disappointed. The only softening of the penal code proposed by the Administration was to give federal judges the option of putting a first offender on probation, after which, in case of good behavior, his record could be expunged...
...church that the angry Ulstermen fear so much is a good deal more adaptable than they admit. As soon as the English eased the fierce penal laws in the 1800s, it made its quiet peace with them, and by the 1916 rebellion was a definite anti-revolutionary force. In the '20s, it excommunicated Eamon de Valera for his part in the bloodshed, only to turn up shortly thereafter in full partnership with...
...serve as statesman-broker between rebel Biafra and the Nigerian federal government, has made Britain a figure of world ridicule. At home, Wilson is locked in a particularly bitter battle with British unions, which are incensed by his union-reform bills-and especially at the bill's penal provisions against wildcat strikers...
SOME 70 miles south of the site of the vicious four-hour battle between Soviet and Chinese border guards lies the enormous Chinese prison camp called Hsing Kai Hu, a complex of nine state farms and dozens of villages, all manned by penal' labor. A former prisoner there recalls the climate as terrible: temperatures hovering around 40° below zero in winter and soaring to a humid 95° in summer. During the warm seasons, mosquitoes from the myriad swamps of the area forced prisoners to wear long-sleeved jackets and full-length trousers despite the heat...