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...seemed late in the day for the Supreme Court to feel the urge to reaffirm those rights, the court itself was at least partially to blame. "We dealt with certain phases of this problem recently," Warren said, "in Escobedo v. Illinois." In that case, the court overturned a murder rap against Danny Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) because Chicago police had extracted a confession from him after denying him access to a lawyer he asked for-a lawyer who was also in the police station asking to see him. The generalities with which the court disposed of that specific problem...
...LEONARD V. FULTON...
...California's 30,586 precincts, Conservative Reagan had 1,385,550 votes to 663,199 for Dairyman George Christopher, a moderate Republican and former mayor of San Francisco. The G.O.P.'s 2-to-l choice underscored the Democratic dogfight in which Brown got 1,334,286 votes v. 994,821 for his principal opponent, Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty, a feisty maverick who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and calls Brown a "captive of left-wingers...
Europe passed a milestone of sorts last week. As of Sunday, June 5, the 7,601st day since V-J Day, the Continent had managed to live in peace for as long as it had between its two world wars. True enough, it was divided between West and East, and each side's bristles of missiles were unneeded evidence that the peace was still troubled. But the rigid structures of Europe are rapidly changing, and so are the dogmas of decades past. The cold opposing currents are growing warmer and the hard opposing truths growing softer...
...George V. Allen, LL.D., director of the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State...