Word: processing
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...behavior. In refusing the extradition request, Ambassador Barros said, the Chilean Supreme Court behaved as an independent judicial body. Ambassador Barros then provided a desparaging view of the U.S. response to the Court's action. His comments unmistakably characterized official U.S. displeasure as impatient, fundamentally disrespectful of due process, and impolitic...
Therefore, when the U.S. Dept. of Justice filed its extradition request in September 1978 Chile's "state of emergency" still governed the regime's judicial processes. Under these conditions, Decree Law 1877 held even minimally defining characteristics of an independent judiciary hostage to the military executive's will. Contrary to the thrust of Ambassador Barros' remarks at the faculty club, it is impossible to regard the Chilean judiciary as an independent institution at the inception of the adjudicatory process which it supervised...
...premised on the understanding that the plant was justified because it would save the participating hospitals money. Five appeals later, the cost has risen to close to $250 million, and even Harvard now admits that the plant is going to lose money. Why is it that the DEQE appeal process which has helped Harvard to progressivly narrow the decision down to a mere question of hotspots hasn't simultaneously enabled the opponents to widen the evaluation so that we can consider whether the Chapter 121A approval is still justified? In short, whatever the merits may be for a flexible hearing...
Unfortunately, this kind of weak policy process provides a far greater threat to the interests of the citizens of the Commonwealth than any self-interested mendacity could ever do. What is happening to DEQE in the process of making this decision will cause serious harm to the integrity of the agency. This would be a loss. John Grady Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College
...idea of a Covenant, now entering its second year, is no longer a novelty but a concept in the midst of change. Rev. Donald Luster of the Charles St. AME Church in Roxbury, a member of the Covenant steering committee, said, "We're in a process of trying to re-evaluate what has already been done and to try to ascertain where there have been some breakdowns. We haven't been going in a fluid motion," he admitted. While some downtown churches have maintained Covenant sponsored dialogues between people of different races, Luster said, "areas such as Dorchester and Roxbury...