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Before dawn on Sunday morning, four battalions of South Vietnamese troops moved up the road toward Saigon from the Mekong Delta. Spearheaded by armored cars and Jeeps carrying heavy machine guns, they first disarmed a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the capital, then set guards to forbid the movement of traffic in or out of the city. Without a fight, the rebels occupied communication centers in the capital, burst into the office of Premier Nguyen Khanh, and arrested several duty officers but found no trace of the Premier. It was the coup d'etat that many had dreaded...
...freedom? Yes, found the court. "Peyotism" goes back to at least 1560; it is the central sacrament of a semi-Christian church whose members (estimated at anywhere from 30,000 to 250,000) believe that peyote puts partakers in direct contact with God. As the court put it: "To forbid the use of peyote is to remove the theological heart of Peyotism...
...Wray noted, the Constitution does not "spontaneously" cover all U.S. territories. For example, the Supreme Court upheld mainland duties on Puerto Rican imports in 1901 (Downes v. Bidwell) because the Constitution's revenue clauses forbid such barriers only between states. But in that same case, Wray added, the court held that other clauses "providing fundamental personal liberties and basic rights automatically go everywhere with the flag." Thus applicable to territories is the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process. And "due process" means, among other things, that a criminal law must be clear and specific enough for people to know...
...President Johnson's desk. Staring deep into the eyes of television cameras, Johnson spoke slowly and somberly to the nation. Millions of Americans have been denied equal opportunity because of their color, said the President, "but it cannot continue. Our Constitution, the foundation of our Republic, forbids it; the principles of our freedom forbid it, and the law I will sign tonight forbids...
...Cambodia's. The country has no draft, spends less than 3% of its gross national product on defense v. nearly 7% in Britain and more than 9% in the U.S. There is so much dissatisfaction in the services about low pay* that the government last year had to forbid further resignations by officers. Only 1,765 recruits were obtained in the last nine months, which, after wastage, resulted in a net gain of only...