Word: provisionally
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The bill makes physical interference with "federal government functions" a felony. Virtually any kind of civil rights or peace demonstration could at any moment by prohibited under this provision. Similarly, a vague redefinition of sabotage as anything that interferes with public transit could have jailed thousands of anti-Vietnam war...
The bill allows a public servant to defend himself in court on the basis that his illegal conduct "was required or authorized by law to carry out the defendant's authority." This provision would have allowed the Watergate conspirators to claim they were just following orders. S.1 would let them...
Congress became bogged down again in its efforts to aid the city when the AFL-CIO announced its opposition to a $7 billion loan-guarantee bill approved earlier in the week by the House Banking Committee. The labor leaders objected to the provision that would empower the city's...
Ives contends that the First Amendment provision for freedom of the press protects the re-enactment of the trial on television, since newspapers are permitted by law to publish trial transcripts.
A new group of liberal reformer politicians have banded together to offer Cambridge residents a clear-cut alternative to the independents. That alternative, the Cambridge Convention '75 slate, includes an ironclad platform provision for the retention of rent control.