Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dirty Harry worked because its protagonist was so emotionally committed to his antibureaucratic and antilegalistic attitudes. Death Wish worked because a man was avenging the brutal death of his wife, and Rambo II worked because Stallone's character was so determined to rescue his wartime buddies from a Vietnamese prison camp. In each case, these heroic passions were sufficient to disarm--at least for the length of the film--the audience's humanistic objections to the means used to gain the desired ends. In other words, their moral fervor canceled out our moral qualms...
Federal law bars former Executive Branch employees from ever lobbying the Government on a "particular matter" in which they "personally and substantially" participated while in office. Violators can be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to two years in prison. Deaver insists that "I was never involved personally or substantially on the substantive issue of acid rain. I couldn't tell you today what acid rain means." According to the GAO, however, Deaver and Canadian officials met with Drew Lewis, the special U.S. envoy on acid rain, to discuss the content and timing of the envoy's report, which...
...commission recommends restraining pornography through measures like a mandatory yearlong prison sentence for repeat obscenity offenders. But it is doubtful that the report has enough scientific authority to support a Government-wide attack on pornography. Several of the experts who provided data to the commission have claimed that their research does not justify the report's finding of a causal link between pornography and violence. The report contradicts a more extensive 1970 study that disputed that link, and the American Civil Liberties Union has condemned the latest findings as pro- censorship. Dissenting Commissioner Judith Becker contends that "social science literature...
...Sung, 74. The younger Kim, they said, is a film buff with 20,000 reels in his personal collection. According to Shin and Choi, he has taken over much of the work of governing. They further claim that anyone caught criticizing the Kims is summarily thrown in prison...
...conflict last week. In Buenos Aires three former junta members were convicted of bungling the ten-week conflict that ended in humiliating defeat for Argentina. Former President Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, 59, who launched the war, was sentenced by the country's highest military court to twelve years in prison. The navy and air force chiefs at the time received 14- and eight-year sentences...