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...national attention four years ago as the author of the report that blamed "police riots" for a share of the disorders surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Then the tall, tanned lawyer, now 50, quit his $100,000-a-year job at Montgomery Ward vowing to overturn both the G.O.P. organization downstate and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine in Cook County. After he had hiked in denims 1,197 miles across Illinois, talking up his giant-killer theme, Walker edged out Daley's candidate in the primaries. But once he began campaigning against Ogilvie...
...bringing Mallory before a magistrate was an "unnecessary delay" in violation of federal rules, and that such delays "must not be of a nature to give opportunity for the extraction of a confession." The so-called "Mallory rule" outraged police officials, and several Congressmen vainly submitted bills to overturn it. Not until the 1968 Omnibus Crime Control Act was it modified: a confession is now admissible if a judge rules that it was voluntary and that the delay before presentation to a magistrate was not unreasonably longer than six hours...
Though reluctant to overturn previous liberal decisions, the Burger Court finds differences in new cases to justify a shift away from the earlier principles. The Warren Court had declared that a shopping center was a public place where pickets had normal rights of free speech; the new majority pointed out that the earlier decision involved a labor dispute with a store in the shopping center and concluded that in a case of antiwar protest, an owner's property rights override the rights of demonstrators. The Warren Court declared that a suspect is entitled to a lawyer at a lineup...
...Coast dock-strike settlement from a 20.6% first-year raise to 14.9%, which itself is more than twice the basic wage guidepost. The surprise departure of Meany and Presidents I.W. Abel of the Steelworkers, Floyd Smith of the Machinists, and Leonard Woodcock of the Auto Workers threatened briefly to overturn the Administration's painfully constructed controls on wages and prices...
Divine Presence. Despite such apologies and defenses, at least a few feminist theologians argue that Judaeo-Christian theology is still far too dominated by male concepts. Boston College's Mary Daly, a Roman Catholic laywoman, says a woman's revolution within the church is needed to overturn the patriarchal, male idea of leadership, which she describes as hyper-rational and aggressive. With it would go the masculine habit of constructing boundaries between "self" and "other." Gone, too, would be a God who keeps mankind in "infantile subjection." The new God would "encourage self-actualization and social commitment." Daly...