Judicial review is part of the United States' system of checks and balances on government. The Supreme Court has the power to review acts of the Legislative (Congress) and Executive (Presidential) branches to ensure they don't become too powerful or abrogate the Constitutional rights of the country's citizens.
1972 This year is marked as a black year in history due to the use of terrorism entering sport with the massacre of 11 Israel Athletes by Arab Gunman. Also this is the beginning of the biggest political scandal in modern times and the start of the Watergate Scandal.
Munich remembered: 1972 attack led to increased security. July 27, 1996 Web posted at: 5:30 p.m. EDT. From Sr. Washington Correspondent Charles Bierbauer. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Saturday's bombing at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta was not the first time an Olympic Games has been disrupted by an act of terrorism.nd now, that determination not to yield to terrorism has been echoed in Atlanta, where International Olympic Committee director general Francois Carrard pledged that the Centennial Olympic Games will go on.. But there will be a lasting effect. Munich was a watershed.