Word: rule
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Colonel Earl Brown, the law officer, or presiding official, at the Fort Jackson, S.C., trial, observed matter-of-factly: "My research discloses the Nürnberg trials involve a rule that a soldier must refuse an order to commit war crimes." If it can be shown that by obeying the order Levy was abetting the commission of atrocities, Brown said, the major charge against him would be dropped. The defense, led by Charles Morgan Jr., southeastern regional director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was so astonished at the ruling that war-crimes evidence would be heard that it had none...
...toll of 10 p.m. Now all residences provide ashtrays because, as one Y.W. official explains, the girls smoked anyway and burned the furniture; any girl who signs out in the evening can get back in as late as 5 a.m. simply by ringing a buzzer. Although as a rule, men may still not advance above the lobby floor of residences, they have free run of the Y.W.'s recreational areas. The Boston center, which last week held its 100th annual meeting, has even opened its sauna bath and pool once a week for a "businessmen's plunge...
...addition to the rule book was made to give all students knowledge of the College's position. The amendments concerning required withdrawal--which is a result of an unsatisfactory scholastic record or a violation of discipline--have an identical function...
...wrong and hopeless to try to part a man from his trusty weed. The new rule will make it impossible to study in Hilles. It effectively limits the library's use to furtive forays in search of dates. And even that may end. A woman, as they say, is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke...
Last month the majority-verdict rule passed its third reading before the House of Commons by a comfortable 180-to-102 vote. The bill then went to the House of Lords, which is expected to okay it in a few weeks...