Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason U.S. court dockets are chocked with auto-accident claims is traceable directly to the hoary rule of "fault"-the idea that a victim can collect only if he was not negligent and the defendant was. Because these issues are often hotly disputed, a deserving victim may have to haggle for years before getting his just award-and then he may have to share about one-third of it with his lawyer. The costly, complex process has been steadily boosting the price of auto insurance, but the amount paid out in accident awards remains far less than...
...Negotiations. The ideal solution to the problem, say Law Professors Robert Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of Illinois, would be a system lor getting more money to victims while charging less for policies, and clearing most of the accident cases out of over worked courts. Like workmen's compensation insurance, the professors' "basic protection plan" permits recovery without proof of fault. As worked out in a new book, Basic Protection for the Traffic Victim (Little, Brown; $13.50), the plan requires every car owner to carry a policy that would pay all of a victim...
...liberal wing, already unhappy with Johnson's Viet Nam policy. As administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Schwartz had worked for a relaxation of curbs on immigration, travel and the admission of refugees. He quit, he said, after learning that he was the intended victim of a planned State Department reorganization eliminating his 17-man bureau. Actually, it was no secret that certain department officials had vigorously opposed Schwartz, particularly on his liberal visa policy for foreigners visiting the U.S. To the Administration's discomfiture, Democrats Robert Kennedy in the Senate and Henry S. Reuss...
...orders; others, such as Czech General Secretary Rudolph Slánský and his Slovak Foreign Minister, Vladimir Clementis, were tried and hanged. From 1946 to 1953, Eastern Europe underwent show trials; the "water treatment," electric prodding, and skillful use of the "pear" (a jawbreaking ball screwed into a victim's mouth) yielded well over 100,000 "confessions" and subsequent disappearances...
...though, are morally certain that they know exactly why a Miami jury so easily acquitted Candy and Mel of killing her millionaire husband, Jacques Mossler, 69: the defendants had in their corner hulking, booming Houston Lawyer Percy Foreman, whose never-failing tactic is to act as if the murder victim, not the suspect, were on trial. By "trying" everyone except his clients, Foreman has lost a defendant to the electric chair only once in more than 700 capital cases...