Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer is civil liberties gospel: if you fail to protect even the most odious and unpopular speech, you risk undermining all free speech. Basic to the First Amendment, the lesson is clear enough to the courts, which have struck down Skokie's attempts to keep the Nazis from demonstrating. Last week the Supreme Court refused to stop Nazi picketing planned for this Sunday in Skokie...
Generally, U.S. law permits "reasonable force" in self-defense, which usually means that life-threatening measures may not be used to protect property, only people. Indeed even when he is at home, a citizen takes a risk if he attacks a burglar; in such cases, the courts may consider whether the intruder was a fearsome marauder or just an unarmed teen-ager?and even whether the incident occurred by day or night. Explains Boston Criminal Attorney Joseph J. Balliro: "If you are in bed and the lights are out, and a man comes through the window and says...
...resent taxes. Says Richard Rahn, executive director of the American Council for Capital Formation, a lobbying group for lowering capital-gains rates: "Support for Steiger is coming not from the fat cats but from middle-income people yelling 'I want a chance to make it!' The fat cat can protect his income. But the middle-income guy who still dreams of some day making it wants to know he can do it big." Whether those dreams are realistic or not, Bill Steiger has discovered in them a political wish fulfillment...
...events unfolded mainly from the point of view of Damien's disbelieving parents. Even after they began to see that there was something fishy about their offspring, they still had to discover the hard way just how large was the conspiracy of devil's disciples assigned to protect the secret of his origins and mission. In the new movie most of Damien's protectors telegraph their satanic allegiance the minute they appear, and William Holden as his decent uncle-guardian is constantly kept at a distance from the lad's evil doings...
...tendency to cry wolf whenever the courts seem to them to be trespassing on the sanctuary of press freedom; the impact of such decisions is sometimes milder than expected. The Supreme Court ruled in 1972, for instance, that journalists who observe a crime have no absolute right to protect confidential sources, but judges have generally been reluctant to send uncooperative reporters to jail. In fact, after last week's decision, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said that the Justice Department would draw up procedures limiting federal searches of newsrooms and would seek subpoenas before search warrants. He could not guarantee...