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Only the Beginning. In a unanimous gesture almost without parallel in postwar Germany, the Bundestag last week passed a bill that does not abolish investigative arrest but will certainly curb its abuses. The bill now goes to the Bundesrat (upper house), where it is certain to be quickly approved. Once the new law is in effect, before a judge may permit a suspect to be jailed the prosecutor must submit concrete factual evidence that the suspect intends to flee or tamper with testimony. A suspect will be guaranteed the right to refuse to testify against himself, the opportunity to refute...
...different factors. For instance, muscular metabolism, and the effects of vigorous exercise." Dr. William B. Kannel, assistant director of a ten-year-old study of more than 5,000 men and women in Framingham, Mass., says: "Cigarette smoking triggers a great amount of coronary disease. If we could abolish smoking, we could reduce the deaths from coronary disease in Framingham by 40%. The risk is related to how much you smoke, but not to how long you have smoked. Those who stop smoking have as good a chance of escaping heart disease as nonsmokers...
...example, helped him hold the 1960 Republican National Convention in thrall. He seemed to stay on the defensive, endlessly trying to answer his enemies' charges that he wanted to sell TVA for a dollar, that he would take the U.S. out of the United Nations, that he would abolish social security, that he had an itchy finger on the nuclear trigger...
...Gideonites. A onetime insurance claims adjuster, Turner picks up clients through the prison grapevine, studies their court records, and has often drawn up petitions, hand-printed by a dozen other convicts. Turner's legal skills have already forced public defenders to handle all Gideon Petitions, made court clerks abolish the usual $25 filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court's wrath at their lower court brethren." At times he hectors uncooperative court clerks: "You are not the court. You are not God. You are just Charley Limpus." Always he seems...
...Chartists, who demanded universal suffrage and representation of workers in Parliament; the syndicalists and anarchists, who wanted to abolish capitalism and the state immediately, and have men live in blessed freedom...