Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE were, to be sure, flickers of the old vigor. The President reorganized U.S. health services to ensure better care. When signing the anti-crime bill, he attached some strongly worded reservations. Before an audience of educators, he defended his Viet Nam policies, and goaded his listeners with a taunt about their own troubles. "I'd be interested to know," said he, "how the pacification program is doing, how much progress you are making in reform, how things are doing in the outlying buildings, and whether you still hold the central administration offices...
...part, the President would like to see a provision tacked onto his bill calling for registration and licensing of guns. But he fears it would result in time-killing hearings or a lengthy debate in Congress. Without question, he considers the gun-control provision in the omnibus crime bill to be hopelessly weak. He is not at all happy about the rest of the bill, either, though he reluctantly signed it into law last week. Johnson had considered vetoing the bill, but was assured by eleven governmental departments whose advice he had requested that most sections would hold up under...
...took note of objections to the fact that Title II seeks to overturn several Supreme Court decisions on the legal rights of people accused of federal offenses. While the court held in the Miranda case that a defendant must be warned of his rights before evidence is admissible, the Crime Act says that such warnings are unnecessary as long as any confession made by a suspect is deemed voluntary. The bill also permits police to hold a suspect up to six hours-and longer in some cases-without an arraignment. Noting that these provisions apply only to federal cases, Johnson...
...Crime Buff Truman Capote (In Cold Blood), it seemed conceivable that Ray, as well as Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas and Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, might all be cogs in a single, stupendous murder machine. The killers, Capote suggested on NBC's Tonight show, might all have been intensively trained, brainwashed triggermen of a type envisaged by Novelist Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate; their purpose could be to drive the U.S. to its knees by assassinating public persons-a theory, Capote claimed, that was once expounded by 19th century Theosophist Helena Blavatsky. (Sirhan, Capote noted, asked...
...door, then spotted two strange men tiptoeing in the hall outside his apartment. Alerted by their behavior, he grabbed his gun and stepped out. The two fled, and Lasky followed, finally collaring one on the stairs. A frisk turned up burglar tools, possession of which is a crime in New York. Because the court was satisfied that Officer Lasky had acted properly, the conviction that resulted was upheld. In fact, six of the Justices thought that the defendant's actions were suspicious enough to give probable cause for an arrest...