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...individual's constitutional protection from unwarranted search and seizure. Criminal-rights activists contend that a ruling in law enforcement's favor will in esssence allow police to search and detain whomever they please, as long as they say they received a tip that the suspect was carrying a gun. In the other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after the Miranda decision - that said voluntarily given confessions are admissible evidence, even when the accused aren't read their rights. The law had never before been tested...
...enlightened discourse, but it has its pleasures--when you're not on the receiving end, at least. Our readers get wrathful at outspoken supporters of controversial politics, such as Lisa Bochard [NATION, May 24], shown with her M-16, whose recommendation that "teachers should be encouraged to have guns" earned the animus of 52: "When I read that, I had to scream." "Bochard's pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four Rs: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic and 'rmed response." "Instead of sending a disruptive...
MASSACRE AT NO GUN...
...report that in 1950 U.S. Army troops in Korea fired on civilians under the bridge at No Gun Ri did not come as a surprise to me [WORLD, Oct. 11]. I spent 26 months in the U.S. Army in Korea doing my mandatory military service. I've seen G.I.s in panic. And what's worse, when a few stupid G.I.s don't stop doing foolish, sometimes cruel things, the result can be murder and rape. YOON WONSUP Seoul...
DIED. CARLA HOCHHALTER, 48, mother of Anne Marie, 17, a student paralyzed in the April shootings at Columbine High; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Englewood, Colo. At a pawnshop, Hochhalter asked to see a .38-cal. revolver, then surreptitiously loaded the gun with bullets she had brought with her before shooting herself in the right temple. Just days before, her daughter had finally regained some movement in her legs...