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...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...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 81, immediately called the Cabinet into emergency session to consider counter-measures and appoint an interim President, Torcuato Fernandez-Miranda, the head of Spain's only legal party, the National Movement. Although the country remained calm, some arrests were reported, and police patrolled neighborhoods they suspected of harboring dissidents...
Value is found not in objects or personalities themselves, but in the degree they trigger his mind to acknowledge their identity. When Skelton's skiff is finished and he and his girl Miranda haul it to the harbor, he scorns unearned satisfaction...
...beautiful," said Miranda. She drove, Skelton constantly looking back to see how it was trailing; the bow loomed in the rear window. "Does it mean...
...directly responsible for Spain's current economic boom. He is regarded as anti-British but pro-American, and may be considerably tougher than his predecessor on the Gibraltar issue. Portending a resurgence of Falangist political activity is the appointment of Vice President Fernandez-Miranda, who retains his portfolio as minister secretary of the National Movement...