Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHATEVER its ultimate impact on U.S. policy in Viet Nam, the My Lai massacre will profoundly test an evolving principle of U.S. law-that every wrong should have a remedy in court. How, for example, can the Army try the men (three so far) who openly admit that they killed women and children at My Lai-but who are now civilians...
...ruling meant that Aras lacked the mental capacity to commit the crime." John C. Cratsley, Aras's lawyer, said yesterday. The law defines mental capacity as being able to tell right from wrong and being able to appreciate the consequences of one's actions, he added...
...Eliot House roommates tuned in a dozen numbers late to Monday night's Selective Service lottery, and sat through the calling of more than 300 birthdays before they realized that something might be wrong...
...school." Then we wrote liberal poems about our childhoods and families (discreetly calling it nothing but knowing in our hearts that it was "the Life Studies school.") An occasional tic of style would distinguish one of us from the others-and the style was good, don't get me wrong, competent and finished-but we had sheepishly to admit that we could spot each others' line sequences from a mile away and that those oh so-recognisable adjective arrangements sometimes haunted us in our sleep. We published Advocates laden with our own poems-and all of us seemed to hear...
...starting off on the wrong foot to appoint these people," Hausler said last night. "Under the Fainsod system, the representative is not accountable to a constituency but to a central body." Elected committees, he added, would be "more legitimate...