Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goaded by Scandal. Aimed at preserving discipline, military justice has always outdone civilian law in providing swift, certain punishment. Goaded by scandal, though, the military has now awakened to the fact that harsh punishment can defeat its urgent efforts to recruit and retain good career men. Says Marine Lieut. Colonel Archie Van Winkle: "We can't afford to keep the prisoner locked up; we want him back...
Penultimate Question. The Supreme Court's decision will not start a rash of executions-at least, not immediately. Mindful of the many appeals pending in other capital cases, Governors in the 38 states that still retain the death penalty took cautious positions. California's Governor Ronald Reagan went on record again favoring the death penalty, but none of his state's 99 condemned men and women are expected to go to the gas chamber before late summer at the earliest. Ohio's Governor John Gilligan refused to be prodded at all by the court...
...National Democrats were polling as much as 9.8% of the vote in state elections and seemed headed toward becoming West Germany's third largest party. In addition to the Schleswig-Holstein defeat, the National Democrats have lost their seats in Bavaria, Hesse and Lower Saxony. They retain only 19 delegates in two state parliaments (Baden-Württemberg and Bremen), and they have, of course, no representation in the national Bundestag. "Four years ago, success followed success," said Party Leader Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden. "Now one failure leads to another...
Global Dismay. The Government wants to retain that seemingly xenophobic rule to prevent feelings of divided loyalty by the child born and living abroad. With the required U.S. residency, the argument goes, the child will better understand the citizenship he wants to hold. But the Government's victory has baffled and angered Americans all over the world. Examples...
...Harry Goldberg, head librarian at the American Library in Paris, is married to a Frenchwoman and has two French-born children. He wants his children to retain their U.S. citizenship, but sees no way it can be done. "With the kind of job I have and the sort of income," says Goldberg, "it is financially impossible for me to send my children to the U.S. for five years so they can remain American citizens...