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...bill has sparked widespread public criticism. Complained Gerd Pfeiffer, president of the Federal Court in Karlsruhe: "It cannot be right that the state, in order to arrest violent rioters, criminalizes all peaceful participants in a demonstration." Jürgen Schmude, party whip for the opposition Social Democratic Party, labeled the proposed legislation "a heavy blow to liberty and the rule of law." Yet few potential demonstrators seemed to be deterred. Declared a parliamentary deputy of the antinuclear Green Party: "We will never be violent, but we will also not fight against those who choose to demonstrate in a violent...
Many of the alterations in the disputed transcripts were made, legitimately, at the request of the members involved. But some Republicans charged that they had not been informed of revisions made in their remarks. G.O.P. Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi complained of "a pattern and a practice of malicious misconduct aimed at discrediting and defaming members of this House." Republicans tried to force the House into establishing a special committee to pursue the matter of the doctored transcripts in public hearings. But on a largely party-line vote last week, the Democrats succeeded in having the matter referred...
...fact that England gross national product has dropped off by several percentage points and unemployment levels are at unprecedented heights seems not to matter. According to the script, Thatcher is expected to whip into shape the trade unions and other enemies of prosperity the same way she crushed the Argies last year...
...pulls off his belt, preparing to punish his son. The final frame reveals the dark-skinned boy, his eyes bulging out in fear. Hudlin was advised that this shot might be offensive to some Blacks, a remainder of the stereotype of the bug-eyed Black slave afraid of the whip...
...person who is 6 ft. tall and graying at the temples," says Berkeley Criminal Lawyer Cristina Arguedas, who at 5 ft. 2 in. and 29 years is neither. Arguedas offers other qualities. Says San Francisco Attorney Ephraim Margolin: "She has very good presence, is bright as a whip, and very, very fast on her feet...