Word: moratorium
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...been executed in the U.S. for 41 years, a sort of moral moratorium during which the courts and legislatures have struggled with the dilemma of capital punishment. At a time of so much violence in the nation and world, some men, at least, pause to consider whether society can justify taking lives under the law. If so. for what purpose? Vengeance? To deter further crime? Some time during its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the death penalty is constitutional (TIME Essay, Jan. 24). Last week the California Supreme Court arrived at its own conclusion, which will...
...spending. Presumably a third would be to raise taxes. Democratic presidential contenders, he predicted, will choose a none-of-the-above option and talk only generalities. At the JEC hearings, Budget Boss George Shultz moved to nail down the Republican position on one of these alternatives by demanding a "moratorium" on any thought of raising taxes...
Allende has unilaterally suspended Chile's payment on foreign debts and last week formally asked foreign banks and governments for a three-year moratorium on the country's obligations, which now total $3.3 billion. Chile's international creditors, including the U.S., have agreed to meet in Paris next month to discuss the moratorium...
...years there has not been an execution in the U.S. This unofficial moratorium, which currently affects 696 prisoners, is the result of an intricately planned campaign that used every possible legal tactic or argument. Even before that, however, the number of executions had been decreasing markedly. From a 1935 high of 199, the annual total shrank to 76 in 1955, 56 in 1960 and two in 1967, when the moratorium began. Meanwhile, Great Britain has joined a worldwide trend toward abolition, and Canada has followed suit (except for killers of on-duty policemen and prison guards) as a five-year...
...presidential campaign. Deprived of an idol who somehow seems capable of transmitting a sense of purposeful unity and of moral social enterprise, longing for a human god to awaken us to our future and to make idealism fashionable, the activists of our country, the students of the first moratorium and their parents, the New Frontiersmen, retreat into despair and acknowledged political impotence...