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...last year; in London. An incisive debater with a formidable grasp of complicated issues, Widgery led a controversial inquiry that absolved the British army of gross misconduct in the 1972 shooting of 13 Roman Catholics during a demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He helped to make a number of landmark decisions on freedom of the press, including the reversal of obscenity convictions against three editors of the satirical magazine...
Since that chance discovery in the summer of 1974, the Love homestead has become a landmark in North American paleontology. In seven years of excavation, Webb and his students have dug up-from what has been dubbed the Love Bone Bed-bits and pieces of more than 100 species of animals, many of them long extinct. All date back to the late Miocene epoch, about 9 million years ago. Among the finds: saber-toothed tigers, four-tusked mastodons, a giant camel some 18 ft. high, an extinct raccoon as big as a bear, various ancient horses and dogs...
While the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee last night debated proposed changes in the Voting Rights Act. a panel of legal and political experts voiced sharply differing views of the future of that landmark civil rights measure at a Kennedy School of Government forum...
...appeals court, O'Connor faced no landmark cases. But she did manage to cut the court's case load by persuading her former colleagues in the senate to modify laws involving workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance. Generally, she upheld trial judges, dismissing appeals from defendants who claimed they had been denied a speedy trial, refused transcripts, and other technicalities. In an article for the current issue of the William and Mary Law Review, she urged federal judges to give greater weight to the factual findings of state courts, contending that when a state judge moves...
...most prominent and distressing features of the U.S. prison system. Last week, as Chief Justice Warren Burger lamented that most inmates "go back into society worse for their confinement," three of Michigan's state prisons were shaken by bloody rioting. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court neared a landmark decision on whether putting two prisoners into one cell is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution. If, as seems likely, the court decrees that it does not, prison authorities fear that the crowding will get worse and the rioting may spread...