Word: prompted
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Tumors & Goof balls. Whitman's bloody stand profoundly shocked a nation not yet recovered from the Chicago nurses' murders. One effect was to prompt a re-examination of U.S. arms laws and methods of handling suspected psychotics (see boxes). There was a spate of ideas, some hasty and ill conceived. Texas Governor John Connally, who broke off a Latin American tour and hurried home after the shootings, demanded legislation requiring that any individual freed on the ground of insanity in murder and kidnaping cases be institutionalized for life. New York's Senator Robert Kennedy proposed that persons acquitted...
...affect meditation would be more appropriate. "If a period of brief prayer is wanted, there is a simple way to have it: a moment of silent meditation, during which each pupil may commune either in prayer or either form of solemn thought, as his upbringing and his spirit may prompt...
Suez-Size Sessions. By the time he got to Moscow, Wilson realized that he could no longer hold off another prompt round of emergency economic measures. Returning to London one morning last week, he called his ministers together for the longest Cabinet session since the Suez crisis. As they discussed measures, reports circulated that Britain's reserves in July alone had fallen by perhaps $1 billion, reducing reserves near a dangerously low $2 billion. Thus, it was in an atmosphere of extreme urgency that he went before a crowded House of Commons with his suggestions for a cure...
Overdue & Overborne. It is the question of how to raise state procedures to this standard that has baffled the Supreme Court. The Fifth Amendment was long thought not to apply to states at all. Only one state (Michigan) has adopted Mallory, and though nearly all the others have "prompt arraignment" laws, state judges widely tolerate incommunicado police interrogation lasting as long as three days. The Supreme Court did not even attack the use of coerced confession in state courts until the 1936 case of Brown v. Mississippi, when it voided the "voluntary" murder confessions of three Negroes who had talked...
...victims. He confessed after about twelve hours. To clinch the police case, he was then grilled far beyond "focus," and was not taken before a judge until roughly 24 hours after his arrest. He was not advised of his right to counsel; police also ignored New York's prompt-arraignment statute. The state's highest court upheld his conviction on "totality" grounds. ¶ Carl C. Westover, 44, the only federal defendant, was picked up by Kansas City, Mo., police in 1963 after they got FBI word that he was suspected of robbing two federally insured banks in California...