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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fret because police questioning may bother the poor the most-"the simple fact is that poverty is often a breeding ground for criminal conduct, and that inevitably any code of procedure is likely to affect more poor people than rich people." Indeed, argued Katzenbach, more effective police procedure would benefit the poor, "for it is they who live in the high-crime areas." In short, criminal justice can go only so far in seeking social equality -a goal that courts alone cannot reach -and then it is time for the "deadly serious" responsibility of controlling crime. Concluded Katzenbach...
MEDICARE. Provides hospitalization and other medical services starting next July for all persons 65 and over. The basic benefit is 60 days of free hospital care, after the patient pays the first $40. Another benefit is a maximum of 100 days in a nursing home. The bill also raises social security benefits an average of 7%, retroactive to last Jan. 1. Cost for the first full year: an estimated $6.5 billion. Signed into law last week...
Exploratory Evidence. In sharp dissent, Judge Reuben Oppenheimer insisted that the defense was entitled to the benefit of that speculation. His brethren wrongly "put themselves in the place of the triers of fact," he said, and ignored the rule that extra care for due process is required in capital cases. When life is at stake, declared Judge Oppenheimer, citing several Supreme Court decisions to bolster his argument, elementary fairness demands full disclosure and cross-examination so that the jury itself may decide whether evidence is exculpatory. Though it failed to carry his court, Judge Oppenheimer's dissent may prove...
...general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...
...Abraham Ribicoff came up with a $180 million plan to give free, unlimited hospitalization to the aged to protect them against "the crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd's proposal allowing workers to retire at 60 instead of 62 with two-thirds of the maximum retirement benefits. Byrd argued that something had to be done...