Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost his temper. That was after Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged that economic and military aid be handled as separate bills. The Administration sent Morgan a 68-page draft that went at least part way toward appeasing Fulbright. To Morgan, that was murder: he was convinced that many Congressmen would seize upon separate bills as an opportunity to kill economic aid altogether. "I fought back," he says. "I told the President point-blank that the day you take economic aid away from military aid, you won't have a bill." The result...
...GUATEMALA, Castroite terrorists have been exploding bombs, killing policemen and invading small towns with worrisome frequency. The latest outrage was the machine-gun murder two weeks ago of the country's Vice Minister of Defense. Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, head of the country's two-year-old junta, has declared a state of siege, and is considering postponing the presidential election promised for fall...
...greatest thing since the Magna Carta," cheered a New Jersey defense lawyer. "A black-letter day for law enforcement," mourned a Philadelphia prosecutor. Tossing out two New Jersey murder confessions, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia had just ruled that even voluntary confessions are inadmissible whenever police fail to tell suspects that they have a right to counsel and to remain silent when questioned...
...decision came from the highest federal court thus far to expand last June's now famous U.S. Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois. In that case the Supreme Court reversed Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo's murder conviction because he had confessed after the police refused to let him see his lawyer, who was waiting at the station house. Rather vaguely, the court held that the right to counsel begins when police start grilling a prime suspect...
Unfortunately, all of Murder's devices prove to be just about as hopelessly primitive as that. The dialogue offers a redoubtable challenge to actors required to speak it with straight faces. They get scant help from Director George Englund, who apparently felt stymied by a shocker in which the only new gimmick is the discovery of the wheel...