Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's Henry A. Kissinger, a former foreign-affairs adviser to Nelson Rockefeller, was sought to take over Walt Rostow's job as chief staff director of the National Security Council. Kissinger has been the nation's foremost theoretician of "limited war" and flexible response to prevent Communist aggression. Last summer, however, Kissinger helped to draw up Rockefeller's four-point formula suggesting steps to de-Americanize the war in Viet...
Love is now dying between the judge and the amendment. During the 1960s, he argues, it has served to protect murderers, rapists and bagmen. It has worked to prevent police from getting the information they need to protect life and property. He indicts both legal scholars and the U.S. Supreme Court for turning the Fifth into "an ultimate article of faith in respect to which compromise is impossible...
Hemophilic Heart. Among other things, says Friendly, the Fifth was designed to prevent a defendant from "being dragged, kicking and screaming, to the witness stand." But Friendly does not see how the Supreme Court can interpret it as meaning the state cannot compel a person to produce documents and records relevant to his case. "It takes a heart more hemophilic than mine," says he, "to find cruelty" in a subpoena to require racketeers to produce their books. Yet the Supreme Court has barred just such an act under the self-incrimination clause...
...police to require a suspect to cooperate in certain scientific tests. Nothing in the amendment, he says, should be construed as protecting an accused man from a "reasonable examination of his body" or from having to submit to voice and handwriting tests or furnish blood and urine samples. To prevent the court from outlawing such techniques, he suggests that they be specifically excluded from Fifth Amendment privileges...
...first-hand knowledge of a city can deal more efficiently and wisely with its problems than can lockstep reform from Washington. New Haven's enlightened urban renewal, for example, has been slowed down by the legislative morass of Federal aid programs. Goodwin wants to establish minimum Federal standards to prevent abuse, but then, give money to the cities and let them work...