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...recourse. President Nixon was due to sign a bill this week that will at last make the Government liable to pay damage claims if its law enforcement agents, while carrying out their duties, commit such offenses as assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, or raiding without a proper warrant. The provision is the stepchild of Sam Ervin, the Senate's doughty champion of constitutional rights. Ervin was aided by Paul Verkuil, a professor at the University of North Carolina, in gathering the evidence that convinced Congress to adopt the provision. Says Verkuil: "All of a sudden the Federal Government...
...political parties' funds-but rather the favors the oilmen allegedly got for them. Whether the companies can clear themselves depends largely on the eventual testimony of Industrialist Vincenzo Cazzaniga, who until two years ago headed both Unione Petrolifera and Exxon's local subsidiary Esso Italiana. A warrant for his arrest has been issued, but he is now on a business trip abroad. Cazzaniga is specifically charged with having distributed about $2 million to politicians in 1972 to make sure that the state electric company would keep using oil-fired generating plants rather than nuclear facilities. The next steps...
...newsletter outlines in loathsome detail people, organizations and ideas that are whimsically felt to warrant unbridled hatred. Future issues will set out plans for National Hate Week, the Ten Most Hated List and the Annual Hate Awards...
...right to the Paracels dates back 2,000 years, to the Han dynasty. Saigon traces its claim back to the reign of Vietnamese Emperor Gia Long at the beginning of the 19th century. Whatever the legalities. Western analysts were surprised that China regarded the Paracels as important enough to warrant the use of arms, especially when Peking has been portraying itself as a peaceful member of the Asian community. Certainly neither the guano deposits nor swallows' nests nor tortoise shells nor edible sea slugs that constitute the islands' sole resources could have prompted the Chinese to use force...
...stated flatly that they had seen the accused drop the shotgun and kick it away when they entered the saloon. Nonetheless, the jury voted for acquittal. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, a policeman testified in a narcotics case that the defendant had indeed asked to see a search warrant, but had willingly admitted the officer without it. An incredulous judge refused to let the case go to the jury and all but called the witness a liar...