Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Constitutional Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson struck an aggressive pose last week as he approached a specially erected platform in the remote Salvadoran farming cooperative of Parra Lempa. D'Aubuisson wore white and a .38-cal. revolver, an emblem by which he is familiarly known. "Some people write that we are barbarians and bloody," he shouted to an audience of some 400 campesinos. "But today, you have seen that we stand for land reform. In return for your vote, we Nationalist Republicans promise to work for the people." The crowd cheered, and for good reasons. Just after...
...seven children, five of whom reached the U.S. ski team. Sheila, 25, the family's particular star, made the team at the unlikely age of twelve. But in 1977 she fell in a downhill run and was unconscious for a month. After relearning how to talk, walk and write, Sheila could possibly have skied on, but her taste for it was gone. "Mom's dis appointed that I'm not enthusiastic about racing any more," Sheila said a few years later. "She doesn't quite understand." A half brother, Steve, 30, turned to daredevil speed skiing...
...Constitution guarantees free expression to all, and the University's control of a podium does not give it license to regulate behavior of an audience. Only the courts can interpret the law, and only legislatures can write it. The University should never define official limits for a speaker's or an audience's actions...
Remarkably, the six authors of this letter even sem to realize this fundamental basis of our law. They write: "The two 15-year-olds whom the victim accused may be called 'alleged rapists' because under our law, a person is innocent until proven guilty. "If, after using this terminology, we then refuse to continue to use it (by referring to the crime as an "alleged" one), what have we done but convicted the accused before the trial ever begins...
...recognition of this expertise, the Marshall Islands in 1978 invited Tribe to help write the Pacific island chain's constitution...