Word: coding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down Mexico Way. By virtue of propinquity, Canada and Mexico are meccas for questionable healers seeking across-the-border trade. But Canada's drug laws are about as strict as the U.S. code, and the Ottawa government forbids the distribution of a dubious cancer drug, "Laetrile." It also forbids shipments between provinces of "Liefcort," a hormone preparation for arthritis dispensed by Dr. Robert Liefmann in Montreal. Liefmann is now appealing in the Quebec courts against a medical board decision suspending him from practice for five years, for allowing unlicensed assistants to give his treatment...
...Some people say that when Nixon and Agnew speak of law and order they are using code words for racism. I would like to suggest a phrase that is clear and unambiguous: "Equal Justice Under Law," These immortal words are chiseled in marble on the Supreme Court. But I forgot; Nixon doesn't like the Supreme Court and what it stands...
...mild relaxation of censorship in Spain, but The Strike was such strong fare that the regime took action. After several tribunals dithered over the case, the duchess was finally brought to trial by the Press Court set up in 1967 to handle "press offenses" that fall under the penal code. The trial of the diminutive, 32-year-old duchess took place in the tribunal's highceilinged, chandeliered chamber...
...Preston Battle, criminal court judge in Tennessee's Shelby County, is determined to keep the trial of James Earl Ray from turning into a courtroom circus. To make sure, Battle has issued a code of procedure that, among other things, prohibits any prejudicial, out-of-court discussion of the case by the principals. Last week, with the trial of Martin Luther King's alleged assassin still more than a month away, Battle made it clear that he meant what he said. He not only found Ray's lawyer and private detective guilty of contempt, but he issued...
During two months of orderly demonstrations in Zocalo, the central plaza opposite Diaz Ordaz's mansion, the students made four demands: that the government disband the granaderos, dismiss Mexico City's police chief, release all so-called political prisoners, and revoke an antisubversion clause in the penal code. The government promised to re-examine the law, but otherwise remained aloof. Mexico's press blamed the riots on "Communist agitators," but the demonstrations seemed more to reflect the influence of an activist New Left. Increasingly, the students threatened to "stop the Olympics," and directed their attacks against Diaz...