Word: stewart
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State of Emergency. Despite the surface calm, however, reported TIME Correspondent William Stewart from New Delhi, there was no question that India and its imperious Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, were struggling through a political crisis that would profoundly affect the country's future. The state of emergency, proclaimed on June 26 at Mrs. Gandhi's behest, had suspended political freedoms and given her near dictatorial powers. Banned were 26 minor political factions representing the most extreme leftist and rightist movements. More than 1,000 political dissidents-of all ideological shadings-already have been jailed, uninformed of the charges...
...split took place last July after the Chief wrote a draft of the court's unanimous opinion in U.S. v. Nixon, the explosive Executive privilege case. Most of the Justices found major sections of Burger's version sadly wanting, and Byron White and Potter Stewart prepared new language. TIME has learned that when the two confronted Burger with their suggested changes, the Chief Justice went to Blackmun for expected support-and did not get it. Whereupon Burger backed down, and the White-Stewart version was used, albeit under the Chief's name...
...with White, Stewart, Powell and Blackmun now all occasional members of the searching middle, the court is increasingly unpredictable. "It can make for some very sloppy law," says Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther. "But in the long run I think it is a healthy sign, because it reflects the fact that some judges are engaged in a serious effort to rethink difficult problems. You need a breaking up of rigid lines before you can come up with a coherent set of rules for new questions...
...count, but most of his purchases become gifts. His U.S. agent has received a Rolls-Royce, his secretary a $2,300 raccoon coat. His manager got an $80,000 yacht and a $10,000 Faberge clock. Elton sent a Rembrandt etching of The Adoration of the Shepherds to Rod Stewart's 30th birthday party...
...patient in the U.S. who is held involuntarily has the right to be either treated or released. "A finding of 'mental illness' alone cannot justify a state's locking a person up against his will and keeping him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement," wrote Justice Potter Stewart. The Constitution, he ruled, prohibits forced incarceration of untreated patients "if they are dangerous to no one and can live safely in freedom." In short, a state may not "fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different...