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Equal Evidence. Last week this increasingly debated impasse was broken in Connecticut's federal courts by Yale-trained U.S. Attorney Jon O. Newman, 34, a rising protege of U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff and a former law clerk of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Laying down a new rule that startled many crime-conscious citizens and many disappointed prosecutors, Newman announced that in his district, "full disclosure of the prosecution's evidence will be made to defense counsel a week before trial, provided defense counsel discloses to the prosecution the evidence to be presented by the defense...
...first two weeks of investigating the plight of the nation's cities, Abe Ribicoff's Senate subcommittee dwelled mostly on the statistics of the problem, demanding answers and offering aggressive criticism. Last week it was the com mittee's turn to sit back and listen- and what it heard from a parade of witnesses was the chilling flesh-and-blood story of what life can be like in the ghetto slums of large U.S. cities. The Senators got an uncomfortable view of places where people have to hustle for pocket money and a moment's pleasure...
...Senator Ribicoff: Collecting of sewage...
...Ribicoff: In other words, basically you lack jurisdiction, authority, responsibility for what makes a city move...
...investigation's harshest denunciation so far, Ribicoff then criticized Yorty for failing to provide leadership in the ghetto: "You are giving short shrift, and you are shortchanging a few generations by doing absolutely nothing for the disadvantaged groups." The rest of the questioning was equally acrimonious, but Yorty remained calm, his face reddening only occasionally. As he saw it, he told the subcommittee, the trouble was that "in the East they tend to look at the whole nation, look at the cities and think they are all the same. They are all different, and they have to be handled...