Word: two-year-old
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...unique statute did not forbid jury trials in these courts. Instead, such cases are tried by speedier single judges or, if the defendant wishes, by three-judge panels. Robert Baldwin, charged with "jostling" (pickpocketing), was convicted by a single judge and sentenced to one year in prison. He appealed, relying on a two-year-old Supreme Court ruling that...
...result, the court took an easy out and invoked a two-year-old precedent. Finding that Maxwell's jurors had apparently been screened in a way that barred veniremen even vaguely opposed to the death penalty, the Justices reversed his conviction and remanded his case to the lower federal court...
...Phantom jets bombed a schoolhouse near the Nile Delta, killing 30 pupils ranging in age from six to twelve years. Israel admitted the bombings, but the two sides differed greatly in their accounts of what had happened. The Egyptians escorted foreign newsmen to a hospital to view the dead, as well as 31 wounded children. But they declined to let the reporters see the school, insisting that the road leading to it was impassable. Cairo reported that the two-year-old school, situated in a region known as Bahr el Bakr, or River of Cows, was hit by five bombs...
...wavy-haired Boston lawyer is the executive director and general counsel of the two-year-old Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, the biggest and by far the most aggressive of five unions representing factions of the nation's 16,000 civil service controllers. Ostensibly, PATCO members left their radarscopes last week to emphasize claims that their facilities are understaffed and that the controllers themselves are overworked and underpaid (though some of them gross $21,000 a year). One key factor nobody thought to mention was ambition-Bailey...
Meanwhile, union restlessness was growing. Last July, postmen received a 4.1 % pay increase as part of a two-year-old package. But the carriers and clerks, viewing their pay raise in the light of the 41% hike that Congressmen had voted for themselves the previous February, were infuriated rather than satisfied. Government employees generally were scheduled to receive another small raise this July 1. As an anti-inflation measure, however, the Nixon Administration proposed deferring that increment for six months...