Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on Detroit's "Total Revolution" [March 19] should have been titled "Detroit Tries to Catch Up." The only really new automotive engineering has been done overseas. I've been driving a German car with the new front-wheel drive for four years, and the stratified charge engine has been available from Japan for some time...
...patrol car appears in the driver's rearview mirror, and the flashing light goes on. The driver anxiously pulls over, and the policeman asks to see his license and registration. It is just a routine check; the driver has not been speeding or doing anything noticeably wrong. Then the officer glimpses the bag of marijuana...
Such spot checks by police are common practice. Last week, by a vote of 8 to 1. the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they are unconstitutional. No longer will police be able to stop a car at random to look at a driver's credentials unless the officer has some objective reason to suspect that the law has been broken. The case before the court involved a Delaware driver named William Prouse, 20, who was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana after his car was stopped during a "routine" license check in 1976. Police Officer Anthony Avena...
...searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority"; people have as much reason to expect privacy from government intrusion in their cars, he added, as they do in their homes...
...when stopped en masse." Therefore, police can now stop "all motorists," but not "less than all motorists." Rehnquist may have had a point about the court's logic, but then there is nothing logical about the genuine anxiety many innocent motorists feel when they see a police car pull up alongside...