Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King loses his most important function-that of appointing the Premier. In the future, the Premier will be chosen either in direct elections by the people or elected by Parliament. The King is also stripped of his post as commander of the armed forces and may no longer rule by decree in times of national emergency...
Hard-Line Objections. Papadopoulos favors the present draft. He wants to solve the problem of what to do with King Constantine by bringing him back from exile in Rome as a purely ceremonial monarch. He also feels that Greece is ready to return to constitutional rule, and that he has become popular enough among the Greek people to win a nationwide election that would legalize his government. The hard-liners believe that the revolution has not yet accomplished its task, bitterly oppose retaining any vestige of royalty. Papadopoulos may prevail upon them to let him bring out the proposed constitution...
...unpaid counsel for the defense in 1954 Fortas persuaded the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to adopt a broadened rule for criminal insanity ("An accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect"). That rule brought the law, which had not been changed for more than a century, in line with modern psychiatry. The decision has induced other jurisdictions to redefine insanity...
...party leadership seemed genuinely aghast at the violence. Shanghai's daily Wen Hui Pao recently conceded that some of the ruling provincial and municipal revolutionary committees are "not in a state" to function effectively. Reason: "The split between the right and the left." Radio Canton complained that "the class enemy" was sabotaging efforts to control floods caused by the rising Pearl. Mao himself, however, seems to be egging on the feuds, after giving orders only last March for "unified rule." His latest thoughts from Peking carry shrill epithets about the danger of "rightist deviation" and the necessity of "leftist...
Some 300,000 British railroad workers last week went on slowdown. They not only refused all overtime work but zealously began conforming with all the rigmarole of the 240 regulations in the nationalized British Railways rule book. Guards elaborately checked rail-car doors and couplings, meticulously counted the contents of first-aid kits in locomotives. Engineers took 25-minute tea breaks, stopping many trains on the tracks between stations. Timetables all but vanished in the resulting confusion, and for several days about half the country's passenger trains were delayed or canceled...