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...pain of disbarment or jail for contempt, the A.B.A. proposals would forbid police, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judicial employees to make any out-of-court statement on the accused's prior criminal record or make public other information that might influence the outcome of his trial. The blackout would cover the entire period from arrest to verdict-a period that sometimes lasts for years...
...bill, backed by the Administration, would prohibit discrimination in the selection of federal and state juries, enable the Attorney General to initiate school-desegregation suits, and forbid intimidation or physical harm of civil rights workers or of voters. It would also forbid discrimination in the sale or rental of housing by anyone selling or leasing more than three units (other than their own house) in any one year. It is this provision that prompted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to oppose the law as "unconstitutional" and refuse to put his enormous prestige behind the measure. When the Democratic leadership tried...
...intimidation reaches everywhere. African political parties are banned, their leaders in prison or isolation. The regime can hold anyone for 180 days without charge, indefinitely prolong the sentence of any political prisoner. It can also order anyone too critical of its policies confined to his home for years, forbid newspapers to quote him on any subject. Backing up the laws is a tough, efficient police force, plus a military and paramilitary organization specifically trained to put down insurrection. Top cop is Justice Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, a devout Nationalist whose background includes two years in a South African internment...
Unlike many nudist colonies, which wall themselves in like monasteries, forbid liquor and anything that smacks of bodily contact, San Gregorio is considered a "free beach," i.e. where bathers are free to wear or doff what they please. One flamboyant japer paraded around on his first day wearing bright red knee-length socks and nothing else. "Here there are no boundaries, no police, no rules," said University of California Coed Nancy Harris. "Nobody bugs...
...forbid Woyzeck should be Tim Mayer's last show at Harvard. Still, if it is, he's ended his extra-curricular career with a hit, and made the first season of the Harvard Summer School Players all the more memorable...