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Holding a Thin Line. Gideon has already freed (after a new trial with a lawyer) Clarence Earl Gideon, the Florida prisoner who started it all with his now famous in forma pauperis petition to the Supreme Court. More than 1,000 other Florida convicts have been released, 600 have won new trials, and hundreds of others are polishing up "Gideon Petitions." Spurring them on is Prisoner 62601, Theodore N. Turner, , 39, Florida's most accomplished jailhouse lawyer, who solemnly states that "Our thin line of civilized living and culture is based on due process of law. If due process...
...where a daily paper with 3,000 to 5,000 circulation can show a profit. But the new junta leaders appear willing to let everyone try. They have also largely redeemed their pledge to end press controls. Only papers printed in English and French must now pass even pro forma censorship...
...Honor winner in World War II. The marine officer had fired in self-defense, reported Jack Anderson in the syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, and then recruited four other marine officers and six enlisted men to help him dispose of the body. The U.S. made a pro forma apology to Castro. Then, Anderson wrote, the Marine Corps eased four of the officers out of the service and hushed up the affair. Two Republican Congressmen from Pennsylvania-Richard S. Schweiker and Herman T. Schneebeli-said they had appealed to the Marine Corps without success to reinstate Lieut. William A. Szili...
Stalemate. At week's end, even the pro forma meetings across the conference table broke off once more. Federal Mediator Stephen I. Schlossberg taxed both sides with failure "to bargain seriously," threatened to maintain the recess "until the parties are ready to make some progress." New York's Mayor Robert Wagner absolved himself of an active mediator's role in a shutdown that has affected the very pulse of his city. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller promised to step in if the need arose, but felt that with a federal mediator on the scene his intervention...
...Senate launched the 87th Congress with its own version of an ancient liberal-conservative battle, but in contrast with the House's guerrilla war it seemed as pro forma as a Capitol guide's speech. Question at issue: How big a vote should be necessary to restrict Senate debate-and thereby cut off legislation-delaying filibusters...