Word: gibraltar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edgar Hoover, who stands like the Rock of Gibraltar in advocating respect for established...
...mass in a drenching rain, once interrupting the search to run for their lives when word came that cracks in another large section of the glacier threatened to dump more ice onto the valley floor. Groaned one engineer: "This is like chipping away at the Rock of Gibraltar. It will take months, perhaps years...
Until last fall, Graves's conviction would have stood like Gibraltar. But in Escobedo v. Illinois, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel begins when police shift from investigation to accusation. And in People v. Dorado, which the Supreme Court recently refused to review, California's highest state court went even further. It ruled that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence invalidates his confession even if he does not ask for a lawyer...
...usual with TIME, the report on Gibraltar is completely accurate and unbiased. But as a Gibraltarian and admirer of the U.S., I must express my annoyance at the fact that since the dispute started, the U.S. Government has not once raised its voice in support of a people who only ask to choose their own way of life...
...SERRUYA Irish Town, Gibraltar...