Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in Washington, Johnson turned away from foreign affairs, which had dominated every utterance during the week. To the graduating class of mostly Negro Howard University, the President pointed out that even though Negroes are winning the legal battle for equality, Negro poverty remains worse than white poverty. He talked about the psychological scars left on young Negroes, the devastating breakdown in Negro family life, the lack of education. He cited figures to show that the gulf between whites and Negroes is actually widening rather than closing, despite the legal breakthrough...
...first, McElveen refused to waive extradition. But Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithen, calling the murder a "dastardly, heinous, cowardly deed," immediately set the legal wheels in motion. McElveen, formerly an honorary member of the Louisiana state police, changed his mind and returned voluntarily to jail and a murder charge. Meanwhile, FBI agents and state and local authorities searched for possible accomplices; police believe that there were three gunmen...
Fantastic? The situation, perhaps-but, due to a curious anachronism, the solution would be perfectly legal. Under the 1955 Bonn Convention, in which the Allies recognized West Germany's sovereignty, the three powers retained the right not only to occupy Berlin but also to declare a state of emergency in West Germany and rule by decree, if necessary, to ensure the security of their forces. The Allies agreed to relinquish this right only when the Bonn government enacted its own "emergency legislation."* The trouble is, Bonn still has not done...
...Chicago's Barry Kroll, 30, is a 1960 Michigan Law graduate who got his first legal experience in the Army, arguing 300 military appeals cases. Out of the Army in 1962, Kroll joined a Chicago law firm and found himself picked off a bar list to handle one of the most important confession cases in U.S. legal history-Escobedo v. Illinois. Last June the Supreme Court upheld Kroll's argument, ruling that the right to counsel begins when police start grilling a suspect (see following story). Kroll got no fee, agreed to work entirely apart from...
This week's court hearings come after a long legal battle over the loading bay requirements. Early in 1964, the Coop requested the Board of Zoning Appeal to grant a variance waiving entirely the City's requirements for loading bay facilities. Dietz opposed the variance and the request was turned down...