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...Justices Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell-and many observers expected them to reverse the trend set by the liberal Warren Court in the 1950s and '60s. Judicially activist, the Warren Court had frequently extended constitutional guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process to safeguard individual rights, which usually meant those of the poor, minorities and criminal defendants. With the arrival of the Nixon appointees, the court was less concerned with the rights of the poor, and its decisions became more conservative. Deferential to law-and-order needs, the court was usually thought of as reluctant...
...further. The doctor too is encouraged to provide services that are not strictly needed. Faced with the question of whether to cut or not to cut, too many surgeons sharpen the scalpel. The patient in such cases becomes the unwitting victim of a system that is supposed to safeguard his health, not jeopardize it. Of the 700,000 people now in acute-care hospitals, HEW estimates that 100,000 should not be there...
...press. Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas blasted the decision as "incredible and terrible." ABC News Commentator Howard K. Smith called it the "most dangerous ruling the court has made in memory." Washington Star Executive Editor Sidney Epstein was afraid the court had removed an essential press "safeguard," while the Washington Post editorialized that police had been given "the right to rummage" in journalists' files...
...service is only responsible for the security of government officials and dignitaries so it will not take any special measures to safeguard Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn, a private citizen. Smith said...
...theory, the top cop, a veteran backer of Balaguer, panicked when he saw the voting returns running against his boss. Balaguer denied this. The army's interference, he explained after nearly two days of silence, was the fault of a mere lieutenant who decided, on his own, to safeguard the ballots after he had heard rumors of a planned coup...