Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IMMUNITY SQUEEZE: In recent years, some local and federal prosecutors have begun to grant immunity from prosecution to an increasing number of criminals-whether they want it or not-to make them break their oath of omerta and talk. Normally, any witness can refuse to talk on the grounds that his answer may incriminate him. But the Fifth Amendment only permits a man to remain silent if his words might be used against him in criminal court; there is no constitutional guarantee to absolute silence. Thus, if a man refuses to talk after a grand jury agrees to remove...
...decision recalls last month's dragnet episode in Detroit (TIME, April 11). After a policeman was killed, 142 Negroes were taken to police headquarters. A local judge, George Crockett, declared the mass arrests illegal and released all but two. The police were enraged, but Judge Crockett appears to have anticipated the high court's reasoning...
...Recognizing that taxation is a powerful instrument for setting and reaching national goals, the President pledged that the next step would be a "start" on two "high priority programs": tax credits to encourage investment in the turbulent ghettos and the sharing of federal revenues with hard-pressed state and local governments...
...liability on nearly all of the 155 taxpayers who paid nothing in 1967 despite incomes that exceeded $200,000. Even so, Mills and other Congressmen criticized the Administration for proposing no curbs on big incomes derived from lightly taxed capital gains or tax-free interest on state and local bonds. Walker defended the omissions. Higher taxes on capital gains might cripple private investment and so require more study, he said; and there are constitutional questions about Washington's right to tax municipal securities...
...most notorious" of the world's industrial countries for this form of protectionism. Veiled threats of retaliation-perhaps including import restrictions on Japanese cars-have finally begun to melt Japanese resistance. Both Borg-Warner and Ford are anxious to begin producing automatic transmissions in Japan with 50% local participation, and the Japanese government is expected to approve the arrangements soon...