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...court. The principal target will be the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. Most authorities?except the police themselves?agree that Miranda and other Warren court decisions have not hampered law enforcement efforts appreciably, if at all. Stanford's Amsterdam claims that in practice the rights are meaningless. One federal trial judge is now betting all comers a quarter that Miranda will be reversed outright. Others have suggested that it will simply be eroded. The right to counsel can probably not be materially cut back; whether it will be extended...
...Amsterdam, Dutch police seized a planeload of Czech-made arms flown from Prague and allegedly intended for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to use in its campaign to oust British troops from Ulster. They also arrested the Belgian pilot of the charter aircraft and an American who was charged with importing arms without a license...
...Vermeer was among the greatest of all painters, but he painted few pictures, and fewer still survive-no more than 36. Three weeks ago, a thief cut one of those precious 36 out of its frame in Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts, where it was on loan from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The place was closed for the night, four guards were on duty, but the burglar managed to roll up the painting and scramble down over a balcony. Roll up a Vermeer? Those surfaces cracked? The very thought is agonizing...
...opinions rested on scholarship and a devotion to precedent-even to the point of often discarding his own previous positions once a majority of his colleagues had rejected his argument. "He kept the court honest by insisting on acid analysis and intense self-reflection," notes Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam. "His genius was in his sense of the proper decision-making processes of the court." Although often a leader of the conservative dissent against many innovations of the Warren Court, Harlan was more logical than ideological, and he had emerged in the Burger Court in a group of centrist judges...
...chance." His first concession was to let into the compound a group of outsiders, chosen by the prisoners, to "oversee" the situation. They included New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, Bronx Congressman Herman Badillo, Republican State Senator John R. Dunne and Clarence Jones, black publisher of Manhattan's Amsterdam News. But they also wanted Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and the Black Panthers' Bobby Seale. At one point there were as many as 30 mediators...