Word: rules
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...then obligingly, and painfully, hauled himself out of his limousine. That kind of difficulty has sometimes frayed his temper, and probably contributed to his erratic campaign performance. Kennedy's aides have had to rewrite his schedules frequently to accommodate his back problems. The Senator has asked them to rule out factory tours shakes he wants to avoid the long hikes on hard floors. When he shakes hands with large groups of voters, he props himself against a table or folding chair held by a Secret Service agent. Rest periods are programmed into each day, so that...
Strikes, violence sweep Kabul and other cities, challenging Soviet rule...
Specifically, the court overturned the "Hawkins Rule," a 1958 decision that gave a spouse on trial the right to veto the intention of the other spouse to offer incriminating evidence in court. This latest ruling concerned Otis Trammel Jr., a California man who in 1976 was convicted, partly on the testimony of his wife, of conspiring to import heroin. In the opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger explained that the old notions about married women having no separate legal identity had broken down "chip by chip," and that marriage was not what it used to be. When a spouse is willing...
...ruling is narrow; it states that mates still cannot be compelled to testify against each other if they do not want to. It also allows spousal testimony only in the case of conversations that were not intended to be private (pillow talk is still protected), or when the husband or wife has actually witnessed criminal acts of the other. Moreover, the high bench is not really breaking new ground with the Trammel decision. Over the past several years, 26 states have gone at least as far as the new federal rule...
...KEEP THE U.S. prepared to win the sort of war the Pentagon outlined in 1978 would essentially require a war-time level of military spending, today. The simple realities of a domestic economy, not to mention other valid claims on government resources, rule out such a budget. It's naive, however, for anyone--anti-draft activist or Pentagon computer--to assume that such a huge war would not escalate up the nuclear ladder, from conventional warfare to "limited nuclear war" to Armageddon. If the planning to fight this conventional war in Europe means that the U.S. has given...