Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reform is coming to the bar with particular authority in California. The state will soon begin experimenting with a program to weed out incompetents by having attorneys take periodic tests. State bar authorities are currently processing some 3,000 cases against lawyers (among them, many involved in Watergate, including Richard Nixon). That is a small but typical increase over previous years. The A.B.A. began compiling rough national figures in 1965 and logged a grand total for the entire year of 216 disbarments, suspensions, reprimands and resignations under fire. By 1972 the tally...
...prison system remained unaltered and the number of prisons actually increased despite the growing pressure from both the outside and the inside to change? The opposition against John Boone as the tried to reform the Massachusetts prison system in the past two years provides the perfect example...
...constitution is being drafted by a committee of 19 experts. It could lead to badly needed social and economic changes for Thailand, including land reform, pensions for farmers, and direct election of local government officials (instead of appointment by Bangkok). The constitution is also expected to end formally the dictatorial and arbitrary rule that characterized the military's 41-year domination of the country's political life...
...Apathy. Political scandals and corruption (see TIME ESSAY) will provoke widespread cries for reform. After the revelation that President Nixon paid only $792 in federal taxes on income of $262,942 in one year, the people will undoubtedly pressure Congress to raise the minimum tax and tighten up on deductions. Sentiment is building for some kind of public financing of elections so that the grubbier payoffs of Watergate will not be repeated. There will also be public pressure for laws requiring politicians to put on "public stripteases," revealing all about their finances...
Fried Fish. Ervin was a forceful foe of Senator Joe McCarthy when he was indulging in his red-baiting excesses. Ervin was a principal backer of the Bail Reform Act of 1966 that allowed poor people to remain out of jail before their trials if they were reasonable risks. Over the years, he has held many little-publicized hearings looking into Government snooping and surveillance. Finally, as Watergate unfolded, it was as if his entire career were preparatory to this ultimate confrontation with a power-hungry Chief Executive. Fighting the White House on all fronts-from Executive privilege to freedom...