Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...primary process, which so many experts had predicted would be a long, taxing ordeal, seemed to have turned out to be a rather short, taxing ordeal. This prompted criticism, especially from those who did not like the apparent results. Contended Newton Minow, Chicago lawyer and former FCC commissioner: "It's an atrocious system guaranteed to give us bad choices because the broad center of the country does not participate in the primary process." Complained Louis Masotti, director of the Center for Urban Affairs at Northwestern University: "It's terribly confusing and is a period of unusual and cruel...
Without doubt, valid objections can be raised to the current system of almost weekly primaries, the unwarranted emphasis on the earliest states and the distorting manipulation, by both candidates and the press, of the psychology of expected results. It may also be true, as New York Labor Lawyer Theodore Kheel observed, that "we pick people for their ability to raise funds, come across on TV, and as campaigners, rather than for their ability to recognize or solve our problems...
...ominous symptom of malaise is the growing visibility of a neofascist movement called the Fuerza Nueva (New Force). The party, led by a wealthy Madrid lawyer named Bias Piñar, 62, attracts alienated youth from some of Madrid's best families, who mix with a cadre of thugs and shadowy political operatives adept at exploiting a residual streak of nostalgia for the Franco era. Fuerza Nueva captured 350,000 votes-a mere .02%-in last year's national election. But the ultrarightists attract disproportionate attention with fiery street rallies and attacks, with iron bars and bicycle chains...
...serious booby traps in the treaty's language. They note that it speaks of the moon and its resources as "the common heritage of mankind" and calls for "an equitable sharing" of them by all countries, whether or not they have participated in the lunar enterprise. Warns Houston Lawyer Art Dula, in the L-5 News: "Free enterprise institutions simply cannot make significant investments in space while they are under the threat of suit over treaty terms or ex post facto appropriation of their investments by a nebulous future international regime...
DIED. Allard K. Lowenstein, 51, Yale educated lawyer and liberal Democratic gadfly who led the anti-Viet Nam "Dump Johnson" movement that contributed to L.B.J.'s decision not to seek re-election in 1968; of four gunshot wounds, apparently inflicted by a former protege; in Manhattan. Lowenstein was active in the 1960s civil rights movement, went to the House from New York in 1968, but was never returned to Congress after that single two-year term...