Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tiny park on the outskirts of San Juan's business district, ten people gathered under an almond tree for a weird rite. They laid out a coffin with a paper-and-rag doll in side and surrounded it with four large candles, slips of paper with numerals and percentages, and branches from a local plant called Cruz de Malta...
...President-elect, though, also faces a darker side of the energy situation. Total U.S. crude oil consumption this year is about 16.8 million bbl. per day, and 6.7 million bbl. of that is imported. Despite their heavy drilling, oilmen are finding fewer gushers. By 1990, U.S. oil production will have diminished by about 20% from current levels. Thus, the U.S. will continue for most of the decade to be vulnerable to Middle East petroleum cutoffs and exorbitant OPEC price demands...
...just that rationale that prompted the Senate to include a sentence-appeal provision in its version of the proposed mammoth revision of the criminal code, which has been lumbering through Congress for 14 years. As drafted, the provision would permit either side in a federal case to appeal sentences that fall outside a middle range. Under present law the Government may appeal only when the defendant is judged a dangerous special offender (like DiFrancesco) or a "special drug offender." As for defendants, they can appeal only sentences that are cruel and unusual, discriminatory, or beyond the statutory range...
...Amlin Gray, play-wright-in-residence of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Daniel Stern and Bob Gunton, a pair of young actors; and Carole Rothman, co-artistic director of the Second Stage, an off-off-Broadway company lodged in a 16th-floor penthouse apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. And lo, Viet Nam lives in Gray's nightmarishly funny vaudeville. A Buddhist monk sets himself ablaze; an Army lieutenant is shot in the back by his troops; a B-52 crashes in enemy territory; a Viet Nam village falls to guerrillas; Saigon orphans cry out in blind despair...
...Boucher under an obscure 1958 law that protects the legal system from "acts, words or writings" that may undermine the authority or independence of the judiciary. The penalty if convicted: up to six months in jail. Two of France's principal judicial associations promptly took the journalists' side. One magistrate noted that he felt "better defended by a free press." A number of French publications, including Hersant's usually approving France-Soir, have questioned the government's actions. Complained an aide to Giscard as the furor mounted: "They want their Watergate...