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...argue the police. They claim that the boards would undermine police morale, impair efficiency, take authority away from police commanders, and give timid policemen an excuse for failing to deal forcibly enough with law violators. Furthermore, the police point out, a citizen already has many ways of registering gripes against police, including police complaint departments, local and federal courts and the FBI. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the nation's local law-enforcement officers, is dead set against review boards. So is the nation's top cop, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Reporting...
...majority vote would be policy, Cooper testified, since it impair the "unique role of the as the prime insurer that decisions be deliberate and that intensity of will be taken into consideration." extended debate, he said, there are not adequate safeguards for minorities...
...academy's prescription: amend the law to permit "therapeutic abortion where there is a substantial risk that the continuance of pregnancy would gravely impair the physical or mental health of the mother, or that the child would be born with grave physical or mental defects." As safeguards, the academy would require prior approval of an operation by a committee of hospital doctors, and the abortion would have to be done by a licensed physician under the usual safe, sterile conditions in a hospital...
...Jersey Supreme Court judge recently imposed a similar silence on every lawyer and policeman the state. In Rochester, NY two men awaiting trial on gambling charges won a temporary injunction against publication of their police records by a local newspaper. If such intelligence got out, they claimed, it would impair their chances for an impartial trial. After a few days, however, the court canceled the injunction...
...never before, religious journals, church groups and individual clergymen are deeply, openly involved in the election. The overwhelming majority are against Barry Goldwater and, though less fervently, for Lyndon Johnson. In marked contrast with 1960, when Protestant ministers soberly debated whether John F. Kennedy's Roman Catholicism might impair church-state separation - and mostly concluded that it would not - churchmen this year have generated more heat than light...