Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a month's hiatus, all of the unanswered questions were due to take shape again this week as the Massachusetts Supreme Court meets to consider whether-and on what ground rules-an inquest will be held into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Yet the issues of the case have been more psychological and political than legal. Ever since Edward Kennedy's black sedan dropped off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick on July 18, the question of guilt or innocence-or at least a sort of non-guilt-has been tried in the national mind...
Grounds for Appeal. Some legal experts believe that Judge Hoffman's behavior has already paved the way for a successful appeal, should the eight be convicted of conspiring to foment riots at the convention. The defense argues that, among other things, the judge failed to question prospective jurors thoroughly to ensure a semblance of impartiality regarding the highly publicized convention disturbances. The jurors-ten women and two men-are mostly middle Americans of middle...
Homosexuals are getting the same rough treatment. Police question strollers in city parks, gathering places for homosexuals. Recently, cops halted cars at night in Piedmont Park and photographed startled occupants for police intelligence files. Solicitor general's agents are also roving photographers these days; raiding a theater showing Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, they snapped pictures as customers-including a minister-were marched...
...question is, would the other side cooperate? The Soviets were rooting for a Brandt victory as the lesser of two evils in the election, and Izvestia called him "more realistic on certain foreign policy questions." Perhaps they might sign a mutually attractive trade deal or grant Lufthansa landing rights in Russia. But so far, it seems unlikely that the collective leadership of Brezhnev and Kosygin would agree to any far-reaching accommodation with West Germany. One reason the Soviets moved against Czechoslovakia was that Brandt had opened negotiations in Prague that might have led to diplomatic relations and German investments...
There is some question whether Brandt will make a good Chancellor. Reserved and thin-skinned, Brandt may find the perpetual pummeling that high office brings unbearable. Furthermore, his own past?his illegitimate birth, his "defection" from Nazi Germany and acceptance of Norwegian citizenship?turns many Germans from him. Those very credentials, however, enable him to speak far more candidly about Germany's past than Kiesinger, who had been a Nazi official. As mayor of West Berlin and later as Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister in the Grand Coalition, Brandt performed admirably. In Berlin, he coolly faced down the Soviets during...