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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last week did not give Kennedy everything he requested. Boyle will preside at the inquest. Further, it will be up to the district judge to determine whether witnesses' lawyers will have the right to question their own clients and other witnesses. But Kennedy did win a partial victory. The inquest will be private, with the record impounded until the case is finally closed. "These general rules," said the Supreme Judicial Court, "tend to avoid embarrassment by premature publicity."* The court also noted that "Petitioner Kennedy's own resort to television may have increased public...
...inquest. These could result in gross distortions or wild theorizing. The shortage of hard facts and the oversupply of half answers since Mary Jo Kopechne died have all along been most damaging to Kennedy, and a closed inquest will not necessarily change that. For his part, Kennedy greeted last week's decision as good news. "I hope," he said, "that the proceedings will be held soon...
...Edward Kennedy enjoyed considerable public sympathy-a TIME-Louis Harris Poll showed. Since then, the Senator has kept silent about the case and has worked, through his lawyers, to alter the ground rules of an inquest into the death. Ted Kennedy has paid for his silence. A second poll last week found that Americans are markedly more skeptical about...
...skyjacker himself was an especially unlikely sort. A young (20 last week), pleasant-looking Marine veteran of Viet Nam, Lance Corporal Rafael Minichiello was absent without leave from Camp Pendleton, Calif. The Italian-born lad thought the Corps had cheated him of $200 in pay. To get even, he had broken into a PX and was facing a special court-martial when he quit Pendleton...
Minus the Trademark. Initially, Arab leaders took the fedayeen's side. Many openly roasted Lebanon's President Charles Helou for refusing to allow them free movement. But last week, shocked that the crisis showed no signs of letup, the Arabs grew uneasy. Nasser invited both sides to conciliatory talks. Lebanese Army Chief Emile Bustani promptly flew into Cairo with proposals for a truce. In agreeing to the meeting, Helou insisted that "Lebanon's sovereignty should not be less than that of any other Arab state." In other words, he still wanted final say about where the guerrillas...