Word: consulting
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...always assumed he had in mind were those provided by the court's 1966 landmark ruling in Miranda vs. Arizona. That decision requires police, before they question someone they have arrested, to inform him of a brief list of rights, including his freedom to remain silent and to consult a lawyer. Indeed, since Burger became Chief Justice in 1969, his court has consistently-and sometimes ingeniously-avoided squarely applying the Miranda precedent. In two unanimous rulings last week, however, the court not only relied on but actually expanded the famous doctrine...
There were two problems, Burger concluded in his opinion. First, no one warned the defendant that whatever he told Grigson during their 90-minute talk could be used to sentence him to death. Second, he was not allowed to consult his lawyer beforehand. Said Burger: "Just as the Fifth Amendment prevents a criminal defendant from being made 'the deluded instrument of his own conviction,' it protects him as well from being made the 'deluded instrument' of his own execution." Smith was not the only suspect to be deprived of these warnings; some 60 other condemned prisoners...
...House pressure and voted (19 to 5) to keep the ban on U.S. aid to the UNITA rebels righting the Cuban-backed government in Angola. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee the next day voted (10 to 2) the other way, but only after adding language requiring the President to consult with Congress before providing any aid. The matter may have to be settled in a House-Senate conference. Both congressional panels also recommended imposing restrictions on aid to El Salvador and Argentina that would tie assistance to improvements in human rights conditions. The Administration feels such restraints limit its flexibility...
...minute private session with Suzuki, Reagan expressed his appreciation for the trade concession and tried to apply diplomatic balm to other sore spots: tie described the ship collision as "tragic" and promised to consult Japan fully on future matters of mutual concern. As the President later put it to Suzuki: "The best way to handle difficulties is to pick up the phone." The two leaders apparently managed to establish a warm, personal rapport. Said Suzuki at the White House dinner: "We were born in the same year and are both proud of being a youthful 70," though the President...
...Pope Paul V order all the dispersed collections of church papers to be gathered into one central archive. Said he, in a decree written in 1612: "We order you, custodian of our archives, under pain of our displeasure ... to allow no one whatever, on any excuse, to consult these books." Hardly had the papers been assembled when Napoleon seized the whole collection and carted it off to Paris. It was restored to Rome after the Congress of Vienna...