Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unprecedented in Australia's history, aroused its own storm of protest. The Melbourne Age warned that Australian governments have always been based on a majority in the lower house of Parliament, not in the Senate. Echoing this argument, Whitlam angrily declared: "Senators are proposing to sign the death warrant of the Senate. They must not be allowed to sign the death warrant of Australian democracy...
...Faculty to reconsider ROTC. But a month later Bok said he had no such plans. "I would like to feel sure we had made an unbiased judgment," he said. "But I have no strong motivation to get it back. I don't know if enough students are interested to warrant bringing it up, and if no one on the Faculty wants to discuss it, I'm not going to push them...
...appeals judges had examined the summary of facts listed by the grand jury and found them impressive enough to warrant quick transferral to Rodino...
...recourse. President Nixon was due to sign a bill this week that will at last make the Government liable to pay damage claims if its law enforcement agents, while carrying out their duties, commit such offenses as assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, or raiding without a proper warrant. The provision is the stepchild of Sam Ervin, the Senate's doughty champion of constitutional rights. Ervin was aided by Paul Verkuil, a professor at the University of North Carolina, in gathering the evidence that convinced Congress to adopt the provision. Says Verkuil: "All of a sudden the Federal Government...
...political parties' funds-but rather the favors the oilmen allegedly got for them. Whether the companies can clear themselves depends largely on the eventual testimony of Industrialist Vincenzo Cazzaniga, who until two years ago headed both Unione Petrolifera and Exxon's local subsidiary Esso Italiana. A warrant for his arrest has been issued, but he is now on a business trip abroad. Cazzaniga is specifically charged with having distributed about $2 million to politicians in 1972 to make sure that the state electric company would keep using oil-fired generating plants rather than nuclear facilities. The next steps...