Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...control program, the Carter Administration has been pushing for a new, comprehensive test-ban agreement. Reason: it is fearful that the Russians, who have made far greater use of nuclear firepower than the U.S. for earth moving and other engineering purposes, could be gaining valuable military expertise in the process. Certainly the Soviets have shown interest in harnessing such detonations to a wide range of projects; their known tests have included the excavation of a half-mile-long canal trench in northern Russia in 1971, and the sealing of a gas well in Central Asia five years earlier...
...thin, others flat, wrinkled or folded, but all similar to those found in rocks dating from a much later period in the earth's history. The rocks also contained the most unequivocal evidence yet of early biological activity; fully 25% of the microfossils were preserved in the very process of division, or reproduction...
...drafting of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and its subsequent application. Berger's conclusion: virtually every major judicial advance of the past quarter-century, from desegregation to reapportionment, was based on unconstitutional usurpation of power by the courts and their misuse of the vague due process and equal protection guarantees of the 14th Amendment...
Actually, a conservative Supreme Court soon seized upon the amendment to protect business interests, while down playing its racial objectives. State laws setting minimum wages and hours, for example, were initially declared violations of the due process "freedom of contract." More recently, the phrase "equal protection of the laws," long considered vague and toothless, has been dusted off to nullify a whole battery of practices not directly contemplated by the amendment's framers: malapportioned legislatures, residency requirements for voting and welfare, even some sex discrimination...
...nation witnessed a defiant Richard Helms asserting his belief that the no contest plea represented a "badge of honor" that he would proudly wear in the twilight of his career. The reasons for this personal view seem incomprehensible, outside of a well-honed arrogance for judicial process. Richard Helms committed perjury, and he did so knowing that his oath to protect the nation's intelligence secrets in no way excused this crime. Anything less than a full accounting of such unconscionable behavior by a high-level administration official amounts to a serious disservice to the American people...