Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader of the coup, Maurice Bishop, 34, a British-educated lawyer, immediately set up a 14-member Revolutionary Council, which is committed to achieving moderate socialist reform. Bishop promised to hold free elections soon and guaranteed Grenadians a constitutional government and full human rights...
...laws are changing. Since the mid-'70s Congress and half the states have adopted "rape shield laws" that protect rape victims from being unfairly grilled about their past sexual activity. Michigan's comprehensive 1974 rape reform law has been the model. At a preliminary hearing for the man who offered Alice a ride, the defendant's lawyer started asking her questions about her penchant for hitchhiking with men. Citing Michigan's shield law, the prosecutor successfully objected to that line of questioning. Unable to discredit Alice's testimony, the defense lawyer quickly made a deal...
Without the reform rule, the crime against Alice might never have been prosecuted. And if it had come to trial, says Susan Rohr, an adviser at the three-year-old Detroit Rape Counseling Center, "the defense attorney would have done everything to keep the jury from thinking about the facts of the crime. Instead, he would have tried to make it seem that the victim was in the habit of making quick acquaintances with strange men in a bar late at night...
...state ERAS bring such improvements, why is a Federal Rights Amendment needed? Although reform by the states is useful, says U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Arthur Flemming, it is "plodding, haphazard, and offers no guarantees of ever reaching completion." Besides, state ERAS will not change the more than 800 sections of the U.S. code that the commission identifies as sex biased. Most important, according to the commission's report, women are still far from equal under the law. As many of them see it, an Equal Rights Amendment is −based on the evidence in the 14 states that have...
Julie E. Fouquet '80, UCSHR's chairman, said yesterday, "We wanted to clarify the issue of concessions made by ACSR on the two reform proposals, as it was clear that the council members who voted last week were misinformed...