Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exclusionary rule, prohibition of plea bargaining, mandatory prison terms, or standardized sentences are either harmful or irrelevant. What is needed is more attention to the appearance of justice--what Willard Hurst called "the substantive importance of procedure." The courts "will have to become models of fairness and due process--living demonstrations that justice is possible." The public--and the criminals--must believe that justice is being done if the law is to have any moral, normative content...
...expect that the reflex of violence has been, until recently, sublimated in fantasy and controlled by black authority figures in the heterogeneous black community. Now, with the opening of the society at large to blacks, those who remain in the black communities are uniformly poor and unsuccessful; moreover, the process of sublimation has broken down. Blacks are finally responding to violence with violence, as they might have all along...
...read about Thornhill, a resettlement camp for blacks who are in the process of being removed from the townships outside white cities to the Ciskei bantustand. Last month, a typhoid epidemic of about 130 cases broke out among Thornhill's 10,000-odd residents. The camp's medical facilities were expanded to meet the emergency: Thornhill now boasts a full-time staff nurse and a six-bed hospital. From the country that brought you Dr. Barnhard and his heart transplants...
...rule over Rhodesia--and over the nearly six million Africans who reside within its boundaries--have beaten the odds for 13 years, and they are doing their darndest to stay in power. True, Rhodesia is closer to a change in rule--either through the domestic process outlined by an "interim agreement" signed in March, or by the intervention of Front troops led by Joseph Nkomo and Robert Mugabe--than it has ever been. But it is likely that Smith and his cohorts will hang on a while longer, both by holding off the guerrilla forces and by poking enough loopholes...
President Horner is in the process of selecting members for a Radcliffe committee similar in purpose and structure to the Harvard Corporation's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), Susan Lyman, chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, said, yesterday...