Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is probable cause to take a person into custody, said Justice William Rehnquist for the majority, "the fact of lawful arrest establishes the authority to search." That has always been true for people charged with serious crimes; this time the court was refusing to make a distinction or to call for less intrusive treatment even though a traffic offense was the only reason for the arrest. The minority of Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan and William Douglas thought that such distinctions were precisely what judges should consider in trying to decide whether a search was reasonable as required...
...dissenters were also worried about "the possibility that a police officer ... will use a traffic arrest as a pretext to conduct a search." In fact, some do already; if they "toss" the suspect and find nothing, they may not even bother with the traffic arrest. Last week's decision makes clear that future legal attacks on traffic-arrest searches will focus on whether the arrest was called for in the first place...
...midweek, the Governors of Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania had ordered state police and National Guard units to drag stopped trucks off the road and arrest any drivers who tried to interfere. That tactic broke the traffic jams, but the truckers are determined to continue their protests until the Nixon Administration gets fuel prices reduced, raises speed limits or both. Some are trying to organize a nationwide strike for Thursday and Friday this week...
...streaker alerts" for Angelenos; when a racing nudist is spotted, listeners phone in their reports. Why do streakers streak? "By being unashamed of his body, a streaker can be unashamed of himself," says Shelley Duval, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. But if an arrest occurs, "the guilt over nudity returns...
...deposed Papadopoulos remained under house arrest, presumably at his suburban villa. But the ouster of the much hated former President did not mean that Greece was on the way back to democracy. In a nationally televised speech, the new civilian Premier, U.S.-educated Adamandios Androutsopoulos, announced that the junta would rule indefinitely by decree, and would not hold the national elections that Papadopoulos had promised for some time in 1974. "We will bring our mission to its conclusion," he declared, "without interruptions, timetables or surprises...