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...Thus Ling made a tender offer that expires this week. In exchange for more J. & L. stock, he will give a complicated package of LTV securities, including debentures and warrants. Last week the trustbusters threatened to seek an injunction against the tender offer, but the company negotiated an unusual pretrial compromise. Under its terms, LTV will be able to buy up additional stock. Should the Government win its case, however, LTV promised to divest itself entirely of J. & L. shares. Meanwhile, Ling and two of his representatives will resign from J. & L.'s 16-man board...
President Nixon's suggestion that "preventive detention" would be one good remedy for crime in the District of Columbia met with sharply divided reaction on Capitol Hill. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd applauded the idea of pretrial jailing of accused criminals thought likely to break the law while out on bail. "Unless we have a safe society," said Byrd, "we are not going to have a free society." But North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin Jr., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and usually no supporter of libertarian causes, was incensed. Preventive detention, he said...
...only to assure that a man would show up for his trial, and although the Constitution forbids excessive bail, judges commonly set high figures for many crimes. The result is a form of preventive detention for the poor man who does not have the cash or credit to pay. Pretrial jailing not only punishes a man who may be innocent, but effectively prevents him from working to pay for his defense. Moreover, studies have shown that when a man has been locked up before his trial, he is more likely to be convicted and get a higher sentence...
...cases. To strengthen the public-defender program and provide for rehabilitation of criminals, Nixon will budget $700,000. He also recommended that the district hire 1,000 more police. "Increasing numbers of crimes," said Nixon, "are being committed by persons already indicted for earlier crimes, but free on pretrial release. Many are now being arrested two, three, even seven times for new offenses while awaiting trial." He called for pretrial detention of recidivists whose release presents "a clear danger to the community...
...pretrial investigator, too, acted as though everything was a foregone conclusion. He collected only those facts that he considered necessary. As for the trial itself, the official procedures were violated. Our friends were not allowed in. My wife was admitted only with great difficulty. There are people here who surely have less right to be here than our friends...