Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reign of Terror...
Chief Justice Warren Burger's speech on crime's "reign of terror" at the American Bar Association convention [Feb. 23] was characteristically wishy-washy. At the same time that he cited the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences, he told us the war on crime "will not be won simply by harsher sentences...
...ironic that the "experts" found so many reasons why Burger's blast at the "reign of terror" would be unconstitutional? The real miscarriage of justice is that the legal profession benefits more from the criminal than the victim. Consequently, the criminals are better served...
...ASEAN) and other anti-Soviet countries to back the Khmer Rouge and its shadow government, called Democratic Kampuchea in the United Nations. The U.S. and other Western countries have gone along, but with extreme distaste. The reason: Democratic Kampuchea is the outgrowth of Pol Pot's four-year reign of terror, in which as many as 3 mil lion Cambodians are believed to have been murdered or starved to death before the Vietnamese moved in to stop the slaughter...
...Invented during the Sun King's reign by the Marshal Duplessis Praslin's chef, pralines today are a specialty sweetmeat of Louisiana, the state named for Louis...