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...Combat Atheism. How much reform the convention will accomplish before it ends-probably in July-is a matter of conjecture. Many older Jesuits, who control the centers of power, are reluctant to tamper with what they call the "substantials" of the society. Much depends upon how radical a reform Pope Paul will tolerate. Although last year he urged a convention of religious superiors to keep abreast of the Council, his address to the delegates was a quite traditional plea to combat atheism and avoid "indulging to excess in the novelties...
Yale was deeply embarrassed a year ago when Kingman Brewster, then acting president, persuaded students to cancel a speaking invitation to Alabama's Governor George Wallace; and now "the administration suffers in agonizing silence rather than tamper with free speech and action" says Yale Daily News Chairman Alexander Sharp. When Princeton undergraduates invited Alger Hiss to the campus in 1956, prompting hundreds of irate letters from alumni, then-President Harold Willis Dodds refused to intervene. "We have sought to resolve this problem not in terms of academic freedom, but in the deeper terms of human freedom," he said...
...There are plenty of changes, of course - most of the major cars have been made over from the dies on - but they are gradual rather than dramatic, often show up in such details as headlights, bumpers or grilles. Detroit wanted new cars for 1965, but it was reluctant to tamper too much with a styling formula that had already proved so successful...
...cause of the outcry was an old German legal custom called Untersuchungshaft (investigative arrest), which has its roots in Roman law and allows a prosecutor to jail a mere suspect for years-so long as he can convince a judge that the man might flee the country or tamper with evidence and witnesses...
...abuses. The bill now goes to the Bundesrat (upper house), where it is certain to be quickly approved. Once the new law is in effect, before a judge may permit a suspect to be jailed the prosecutor must submit concrete factual evidence that the suspect intends to flee or tamper with testimony. A suspect will be guaranteed the right to refuse to testify against himself, the opportunity to refute the charges at the initial hearing, and the privilege of private consultation with his lawyer. More important, leading German legislators regard the bill as only the beginning in overhauling the country...