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...court opinions, Chief Justice Warren Burger has criticized the "massive safeguards for accused persons" that, in his view, unduly hamper law enforcement and criminal justice. High among the safeguards that the legal community has always assumed he had in mind were those provided by the court's 1966 landmark ruling in Miranda vs. Arizona. That decision requires police, before they question someone they have arrested, to inform him of a brief list of rights, including his freedom to remain silent and to consult a lawyer. Indeed, since Burger became Chief Justice in 1969, his court has consistently-and sometimes...
...ability to "shuttle" off this 20th century mortal coil and return, flawlessly, is a landmark achievement of the human race-a forerunner of man's travel to the stars. Initiative, expertise and creativity are alive and well in America...
...Maynard Jackson, referring to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. First proposed by Lyndon Johnson, the act was passed overwhelmingly by Congress after a voting rights drive in Selma, Ala., led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had ended in violent clashes between blacks and white police. The landmark law, which was renewed in 1970 and 1975, abolished literacy tests, forbade any other barriers to the registration of black voters and required six Southern states with a long history of discrimination to clear with the Justice Department any changes in their election laws...
Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Carter gave lip service-and often much more -to the idea of safeguarding America's natural resources. Year after year Congress came through nobly, enacting such landmark legislation as the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and a series of bills designed to protect endangered species. In 1980 the nation's legislators even created a "superfund" to clean up toxic-waste dumps. The new Administration plans to reverse much of that. Says Audubon Society President Russell Peterson, Reagan is "trying to turn back the clock...
...must congratulate you for having the intestinal fortitude to undertake such a monumental project and for articulating solutions to the great problems. Although some may not agree with all of your proposals, business and labor statesmen as well as Government leaders should take the time to peruse this landmark document...