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...Galley trial as in the Water gate trials, publicity alone does not seem compelling reason to abort the jury sys tem. By reductio ad absurdum, that would establish a principle that fame, not the truth, shall make you free. All a defendant's constitutional guarantees remain, but the basis of the jury system is still a faith that in the end, jurors are rationally capable of rendering judgment, as if they were kicking Dr. Johnson's rock. ∙Lance Morrow
...humans, Pioneer passed just 81,000 miles above the multicolored Jovian cloud tops, took color pictures, gathered oth er data and then was hurled by the enormous gravitational pull of the sun's larg est planet onto a course that will eventually carry it out of the solar sys tem, toward the stars - the first object from earth ever to embark on such a cosmic odyssey...
...Augusta riot was not, of course, the result of the miserable prison conditions that led to the death of Charles Oatman, although a local committee had asked for a Justice Department investigation of the police and the jail sys tem last December. As the blacks see it, it was the ultimate explosion of long-smoldering injustices and repressions. "I stood right here in this courthouse three months ago and told them it was coming, and they said it couldn't happen here," said Leon Larue, a local black leader...
...answer, supporters of the Bayh amendment argue that the two-party sys tem is not based on the Electoral Col lege alone, but on deep-seated American tradition and hundreds of thousands of lesser elections. In these races a party label is vital, and the two major political organizations would not necessarily be affected by a change in the electoral system. Presidential candidates would still need this wide web of support; the lack of party money and party workers would still discourage and inhibit maverick challengers. On balance, though, the Bayh amendment would probably weaken the two-party system, encourage...
...less than three-quarters of the sys tem's 1,900 white students showed up for classes...