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...Princeton-educated son of a Chicago lawyer-politician and grandson of a Supreme Court Justice of the same name, Harlan opposed the Warren Court's decisions calling for reapportionment of legislatures in pursuit of a one-man, one-vote principle and the Miranda ruling throwing out confessions from criminal suspects not advised of their right to counsel. An advocate of judicial restraint, he objected to intervention by federal courts in state obscenity cases unless the state action was "clearly the product of prudish over-zealousness." In a recent capital-punishment decision-the court's most emotional pending issue...
...many seasoned correspondents in Saigon, the U.S. will inescapably be seen as the chief loser in the one-man presidential election race. After years of official assurances from Washington that democracy was at work in South Viet Nam, Richard Nixon recently-and accurately-declared that true democracy was "generations" away. Nor had it been brought closer by U.S. policy in recent months. From Saigon, TIME's Bureau Chief Jon Larsen cabled this assessment...
Thieu's confidence was well founded. He had Richard Nixon's assurance, given at a press conference two weeks ago, that U.S. aid would not be affected by Thieu's version of a one-man, one-vote election. The U.S. embassy also passed word among South Vietnamese generals last week that any attempt at a coup d'etat would bring an end to American support. That support, and South Viet Nam's need for it, was visibly demonstrated last week, when U.S. fighter-bombers launched heavy air attacks across the DMZ for five straight days...
...initially were mostly dissents, but in the '50s his spare, step-by-step reasoning began attracting a majority. His reasoning served as backbone to such breakthrough decisions as those enforcing Southern school desegregation, expanding the rights of criminal defendants, and requiring state legislatures to be apportioned on a one-man, one-vote basis. His longest fight was a largely successful effort to expand application of the Bill of Rights beyond the federal structure to state courts and agents as well. Despite his acknowledged eminence among colleagues, he remained an unprepossessing figure, standing daily in a Government cafeteria line...
...confidently discounted Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's threats of a coup d'etat against his government. Although Ky himself was now silent, he did dispatch an aide to Washington to urge that the Nixon Administration cut off economic and military aid to force postponement of the one-man presidential race. U.S. diplomats in Saigon settled into a quiet cynicism over the no-contest race...