Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roadblocks are not new, but lately they seem to be coming back into vogue. Their goals vary. Police in Montgomery County, Md., have been running daily blocks to snare drunken drivers. Last month a federal task force set up a continuing checkpoint on U.S. 1, the only road leading out of the Florida Keys, primarily to detect illegal aliens. Says Lawrence Sherman, director of research for the Police Foundation: "It's a technique with a great deal of potential...
...over without cause but said that roadblocks where everybody is stopped for a license check are legal. Justice Harry Blackmun suggested that it would also be nondiscriminatory and thus permissible to stop, say, every tenth vehicle. Lower courts have been uncertain, however, whether that decision allowed roadblocks aimed at drunken drivers...
...continue," says Kent Joscelyn, a transportation specialist at the University of Michigan, "there must be reasonable grounds to believe a crime was committed." Experts agree that if drugs or other contraband are in plain view, police may seize it and then look further. In cases of suspected drunken driving, some officials believe that the smell of alcohol on a driver's breath justifies a Breathalyzer test. Of course, police can simply ask questions. Everyone has a constitutional right not to answer. But when officers at the Arkansas roadblock inquired whether anyone had drugs, a few honest travelers admitted that...
...this drunken lecher with insolent ambitions had the power to make troubled people feel better-to lighten souls, as De Jonge puts it. Animals and children loved him. In his own way he wanted to be what the Tsar and Tsarina believed him to be: the savior of Holy Russia. But even if Rasputin had been an angel, he would have been too late. "A kind of frenzy has seized people," Princess Catherine Radziwill wrote in 1913. Russia had turned into a "very large lunatic asylum" of manic searchers, from table-tapping spiritualists to bomb-tossing anarchists. The whole country...
...this real-life soap opera should find something better to do with their time. Did the two former Waltham patients decide to press fabricated charges years after hazily remembered run-ins with Hussain only because the learned that he had been convicted of the gang-rape? Was the drunken affair in Rockport a matter among consenting adults, as Hussain and this co-defendants claim, or was it a violent and horrible crime? The latter verdict was "guilty," but members of that jury have since said they had never understood the formal charges and only punished the three doctors for doing...