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...amparo (literally: protection) is a Mexican legal confection with elements of habeas corpus, stay of execution and injunction, all rolled into one. Anyone who feels that he has been or is about to be the victim of unjust police or court action may apply for an amparo. By its terms, no arrest may be made or judgment executed in a specific case until the court issuing the amparo has had a chance to review the case and decide whether the agency involved is acting within the law. Its great advantage from the lawbreaker's point of view is that...
...Most of the rest withheld their fire. Even some of MacArthur's severest critics eased up. Said the usually critical Des Moines Register: "We are compelled to say in fairness that the 'kicking around' which the U.N. supreme commander in Korea is now getting seems most unjust and irresponsible...
...wife sent a letter to the secretary in 1941, explaining her husband's activities and mentioning the "hopeless tragedy of his countrymen's life." Speaking of the violence in Puerto Rico, she said "the burying yards and jails have been filled with Puerto Rican patriots and unjust indictments are daily occurrences...
...problem was one that the U.S. had never had to face before: how to keep up a big standing army for a crisis that had no predictable end. Said Lewis Hershey: "Whatever we do, we will not escape being unjust. There is no justice in taking the boys between 18 and 25 to save the nation. That is just necessity...
From coast to coast, indignant citizens took after Communists, their party-line friends, and some they just suspected of being party-liners. Distinctions were not always finely drawn, and so the actions they took ranged from sound to silly to unjust. Items...