Word: suspects
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...Base, Del. Under military law, Tempia was advised that he would have a right to free military counsel-but only after being charged. After Tempia admitted the offense, he was tried on June 14, the day, it so happened, after the Supreme Court announced in Miranda that every civilian suspect is entitled to free counsel before being questioned...
...Fremont, Ohio, a middle-aged husband recently went berserk and tried to beat his wife to death. When the police arrived, he threatened to shoot anyone who interfered. In that common situation, many a U.S. policeman might have whipped out his own gun and shot first, even if the suspect regrettably died in the process. Instead, one Fremont policeman squeezed off a stream of tear-gas-like liquid that hit the crazed husband in the face and instantly brought him to his knees, stunned, docile-and alive...
Made by Pittsburgh's General Ordnance Equipment Corp., the incapacitating spray that tamed the Fremont wifebeater is fired from a small tube and irritates the eyes, nose and skin. More important, the fumes can cause dizziness and almost instant apathy. The sprayed suspect usually just sits down until he is led away. The effects last no more than half an hour. For police, the device is the first, if not the final, answer to a nationwide need-a weapon that disables as effectively as a gun and yet does no permanent injury...
...speech on het Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.) said The Handbook of Prescription Drugs by Dr. Richard Burack "provides the public with what we've been needing" to crackdown on suspected over-pricing by drug companies. He compared the Handbook to Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed saying, "It tells a story that may even bemore important and I suspect it will have similar impact...
...this, too, was concept, if you will--but concept founded on a rather childish view of world realities--founded also, I suspect, on a certain gratification of our self-esteem, insofar as it was so nice to see ourselves, high-mindedly devoted to the enthronement in international affairs of the principles of a law and orderly behavior, in contrast to the wicked powers of Europe, bent on intrigue, aggrandizement, and various other sorts of wickedness...