Word: counsel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Opus Dei, as it is commonly called, is a loosely knit organization of laymen and priests that Escrivá founded less than four decades ago in Madrid. Despite his counsel to "pass unnoticed," it has become the most controversial -and in many ways the most powerful -Spanish ecclesiastical invention since the Jesuits. Many Spaniards call it "Octopus Dei," and in Argentina it is widely believed to be a "holy mafia." Many Jesuits, in particular, consider it heretical in both concept and practice-a sort of Catholic freemasonry. Spain's Diplomat-Journalist Ismael Herráiz charges that Opus...
...shot quirk. On May 1, 1966, Airman Third Class Michael Tempia was detained for making obscene statements to three 10-year-old girls in a ladies' room at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Under military law, Tempia was advised that he would have a right to free military counsel-but only after being charged. After Tempia admitted the offense, he was tried on June 14, the day, it so happened, after the Supreme Court announced in Miranda that every civilian suspect is entitled to free counsel before being questioned...
...voided his confession. Even so, the confession was admitted, and Tempia was sentenced to six months' hard labor, loss of pay, reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge. In reversing his conviction, the Court of Military Appeals ruled that from now on G.I.s are entitled to free counsel before any questioning starts...
...rule has long been followed in much of the U.S. Now the anachronism is under heavy fire. In Miranda v. Arizona last June, the Supreme Court held that confessions from persons in custody are inadmissible unless the suspect was clearly informed of his rights to silence and to counsel before being questioned. Can tacit admissions to the police survive that holding...
Toward new Chancellor Kiesinger, Adenauer was more kindly disposed. Kiesinger moved to tighten ties with France and, in Adenauer's view, acted a little more aloof from Washington. These were policies that followed der Alte's own counsel; trust in the wisdom of others was never one of Adenauer's virtues. That the changing nature of Communism in Europe, and of Europe itself, might be outrunning his own concept of Realpolitik did not seem to have occurred to him. But then, it hardly mattered. Adenauer's certainty of purpose at a time when Germany most needed...