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...this review I have as yet not addressed myself to what is the most difficult aspect of the marihuana problem. For reasons which need not detain me, the use of marihuana has become a symbol of revolt by the young against their established elders. It has in many places taken a symbolic importance, particularly because those of my generation so deplore its use and are themselves so unwilling to discriminate between that which is inherently evil in marihuana and that which is not proved to be evil but merely undesirable...
...only 60 hours old, Israeli troops were in sight of the canal. In their sweep across the desert they bypassed some twenty to thirty thousand Egyptian soldiers who are even now continuing to stumble back toward the Suez. Soon the Israelis had so many prisoners that they would only detain officers. An official Israeli statement announced that some of the retreating Egyptian soldiers had been machine-gunned by their own troops form across the canal upon their ar- rival. The statement also said that the Egyptians had cut the water pipe lines which fed from Egypt into occupied Sinai...
...responsibility for the fine-deaths of farmers will undoubtedly be considered and reconsidered by reasonable, courteous, duly designated judges. At that time and at that time only will it be appropriate to cast aspersons on the activities of a head of state and his closest lieutenants, and to detain them at their possible inconvenience to answer questions regarding the ultimate morality of the actions under consideration...
...with a gun." The roomer identified himself as Richard Speck, a name that did not yet ring a bell with the officers, though they had a tentative physical description of the suspect. As for the gun, he said that it belonged to the girl. Though most policemen would instinctively detain a man in such circumstances, the cops merely confiscated the weapon-a .22-cal. revolver (the murderer had carried a "small black pistol"). Hours later, police matched up the gun incident with the murder man hunt and rushed back to the hotel. Speck had left 30 minutes earlier...
...code's supporters hope that it might lend to legislative action on pro-arraignment procedures -- either through state law - including such matters as search, seizure, arrest, questioning, bail, the right to detain, and confessions -- is now determined by individual court cases...