Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negates completely a basic American principle of promoting the worldwide rule of law among nations...
...student at Cairo's Al Nahda secondary school, Nasser organized schoolboy riots, about this time ordered an assassination (presumably of an Egyptian political leader) that narrowly failed to come off, and lay awake shuddering on his own salvation. That year the British refused to grant home rule to India; Gandhi went on a hunger strike, and Nehru to jail...
...when Jordan's King Hussein was desperately struggling to preserve his throne, Radio Cairo kept up a steady and strident barrage: "Death to the traitors who rule Jordan!"-and suggested that Hussein "receive the same fate as his grandfather," who was assassinated. Similar chants have since poured forth against the leaders of Lebanon and Iraq. A recent sampler of Cairo's aggression by radio...
France dispatched a carrier, a cruiser and three destroyers to the Lebanon coast for a quick show of support to the U.S., but did not go ashore, where the Lebanese people have unhappy memories of French rule...
Though 31 states do allow some degree of privileged communication to a clergyman, the right is still not recognized as a rule of common law. British judicial opinion since the Restoration has been almost unanimous in denying it, mainly out of ancient enmity to the confessional system of the Roman Catholic Church. But many leading British attorneys have differed. "Practically," Lord Chief Justice Sir John Coleridge said in the 1890s, "the question can never arise while barristers and judges are gentlemen." But if it did, according to Sir James Willes, he was satisfied that priests have an actual legal right...