Word: retreat
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CRIMINAL LAW. This is the President's special concern, and it is where the court can be expected to retreat most notably from some of the ground broken by the Warren court. The principal target will be the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. Most authorities?except the police themselves?agree that Miranda and other Warren court decisions have not hampered law enforcement efforts appreciably, if at all. Stanford's Amsterdam claims that in practice the rights are meaningless. One federal trial judge is now betting all comers a quarter...
RACE. Here the experts feel that there will be little retreat. Last spring's authorization of busing in once-segregated Southern school districts was unanimous, and the principle of social equality seems too firmly established both in legislation and in the court's long line of constitutional interpretations since 1954's Brown v. Board of Education. Says Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund: "I think the court will protect racial minorities as it has historically. One of the things about conservatives is that they follow precedent." Precedent, however, is not strong on Northern-style de facto...
Generally, in fact, except on criminal questions and perhaps on obscenity, the court will not retreat in major ways from Warren court decisions. Observes Constitutional Law Professor Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago: "After you break an egg, you can scramble it. but you can't put it back together." Instead, the Justices will simply not march onward...
...about 31% of the U.N.'s $200 million annual budget). Rogers had been pushing the same argument behind closed doors for weeks, but submitting to private blackmail is one thing, and openly acknowledging that one is yielding to pressure is quite another. As part of a modest Administration retreat, Assistant Secretary of State Samuel de Palma denied that the U.S. was resorting to "blackmail." "No threat of that kind is being made," he said-though of course...
More is expected from the man who wrote The Subject Was Roses. Peculiarly enough, when Gilroy stops writing and starts directing, he shows talent. A hospital waiting room is shown, quite accurately, to be a zone where all experience-even pain-becomes banal; a rural retreat is made a place far more sinister than an evening street in the city. Shirley MacLaine, in a couple of tasteful nude scenes, puts aside her perennial mask of lovable kook to show herself as a woman of very attractive middle age. Like a good many former celebrities these days, she remains a star...