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...only dream of owning a condominium or a house. Statistics from the Concilio Hispano de Cambridge, a social service organization for Hispanic residents, show that 16 per cent of the immigrants live in "overcrowded" conditions--more than one person per room. "Housing is very tough to find," Hector Miranda, director of the Concilio Hispano, says. "Many people originally staying with family and friends may end up moving to Waltham or other communities because of the housing crunch," he adds. And the Cambridge Housing Authority lacks bilingual workers, he says...
...NEVER LET ANYONE near him. "Behind our masks, we clowns lead very sad lives," he once confessed, and his private life was varied if not sad. Sellers stood four times beneath the nuptial tier, never with a girl over 23. There was Anne, Britt, Miranda, and finally Lynne, who never got to say goodbye to her husband before he boarded the jet for the big cutting room...
Ever since the landmark Miranda decision in 1966, police have been prohibited from formally interrogating any person they take into custody if he invokes his right to remain silent until his lawyer is on hand. But does that mean officers cannot try to maneuver a suspect into speaking up about his crime in, say, casual chitchat? Yes indeed, the Supreme Court said last week. In a 6-to-3 ruling in a Rhode Island murder case, the Justices declared that Miranda bars "any words or actions ... that the police should know are reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response from...
...functional equivalent." Two of the dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, felt the remarks should indeed have been read as an appeal to the suspect's conscience. But Justice John Paul Stevens went further, rejecting the majority's definition of interrogation as a "plain departure" from Miranda's principles...
Douglas was suspicious of the coercive power of Government. He anticipated the Miranda decision of 1966 by arguing, usually in dissent, that the criminally accused should have immediate access to a lawyer and the right to remain silent after arrest. He voted against letting the state use evidence obtained by "unreasonable search and seizure." Privacy was almost an obsession with him; in 1973 he said he was "morally certain" that the court's conference room had been bugged. In a famous 1965 decision striking down a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, Douglas stated that whether...