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...taken ill. She flew home hurriedly after receiving reports of his declining health. In a weekend address to the nation, she announced that until he recovered she was temporarily assuming his duties as "Chief Magistrate of the nation." Two days later, Isabelita returned to television and radio to inform the nation that "a real apostle of peace and union has died...
...investigative reporting in areas far less obvious than the Watergate abuses. Even more important than investigation will be explanation. A shortcoming of the American press probably graver than any faults displayed during Watergate is the lack of expertise in many fields, a failure to develop the techniques necessary to inform the public on highly complicated subjects, to lay out the alternative choices and possible solutions in an increasingly baffling world. Cliché thinking and reporting are a far greater danger than bias...
...Respected and honorable Chairman Mao: How are you? We have come to Peking to inform you of the way the anti-Lin and anti-Confucius campaign is going on in our province...
...sold in 1970 for $7,500, which was given to the Louise Whitbeck Fraser School for the mentally retarded in Minneapolis. Pleading ignorance of the 1966 law, Humphrey said in Washington last week: "At no time did any officer of the State Department or any other agency of Government inform me that gifts received by me or members of my family should be placed in the custody of the department...
...fondest hope of many a Warren Court critic has been that the Burger Court would overturn the 1966 Miranda decision. That momentous piece of "strict construction" requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence, to a lawyer-and to free counsel if they are indigent; it also bars the use in court of any statement obtained without a reminder of those rights. But instead of reversing Miranda outright, the new majority has opted for trimming, undercutting or blunting its reach...