Word: concerns
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...Poussaint's concern is partially based on his experiences while living in East Harlem, New York City and in Jackson, Mississippi in 1965-66 when he served as Southern Field Director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. Eighteen of his major publications have dealt with the dilemma of the American black...
Sophisticated Effort. Explaining the Administration's view, Mitchell said: "We have come to the firm conclusion that voting rights are no longer a regional issue. They are a national concern for every American which must be treated on a nationwide basis." His rationale failed to impress committee members, liberal Congressmen and the only other witness to testify last week, Clarence Mitchell of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Main Front. The fedayeen, however, are of less concern to Israel than the standing threat from Egypt. Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that Egypt and Syria were stepping up their war efforts, and another round of the war "can happen," perhaps this year. "The Egyptian front is the main one," he added. "It won't start anywhere else...
Decision Days. Until the very last, the court that Warren led demonstrated its overriding concern with the rights of the individual-even though many critics complained that in some instances it had already gone too far. Just minutes before Burger's swearing-in, it handed down three decisions that further protect the rights of criminal defendants: > In a pair of cases from Alabama and North Carolina, the court ruled that a man who gets a criminal conviction set aside but is convicted a second time on the same charge, may not be given a longer sentence without any justification...
...first of the court's landmark decisions in criminal law. Mapp v. Ohio (1961) had announced the important principle that evidence seized in an illegal search may not be introduced at a man's trial. But Gideon was the first sign of the court's concern for protecting accused criminals who may not be able to defend themselves. It was followed by Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), which held that a suspect may not be prevented from seeing his lawyer during a police interrogation. The most controversial decision of all was Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which called...