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...that question last August when the legislature overhauled the state's drug laws. Under the tough old rules, for example, selling as little as 2.5 gm. of marijuana brought a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years; now judges may impose terms as short as six months or even suspend a first offender's sentence. Aware that more than 600 convicts were serving time under the old penalty structure, Ogilvie decided "to make old sentences conform to the spirit of new statutes...
...inform Pakistan that "in the event of a war with India. Pakistan should not assume that the United States would necessarily suspend assistance to India...
...department and coming down hard on corrupt cops, thought that the Knapp Commission had gone too far. One "rogue cop," he objected, was smearing the entire force-and indeed Phillips had nothing to lose by telling a lurid story. But Murphy took the matter seriously enough to suspend temporarily his newly appointed chief of detectives, Albert Seedman, who had been given an $83 dinner for four on the house at the New York Hilton last March. After a few days' investigation, Seedman was reinstated-because he had not been in a position to do the hotel any favors...
...willingness to suspend individual constitutional rights during last spring's May Day demonstrations...
Marcus Rainey, assistant dean of Students at B.C., said yesterday the university "does not intend to suspend anyone." However, he added that students identified as blocking the entrances to Alumni Hall will be brought before the University Conduct Board for possible disciplinary action...