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...Suspect. Mapp's purpose was to make state police observe the Fourth Amendment guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Until then, courts in about half the states admitted illegally seized evidence-typically, the fruit of searches made without lawful warrants. Thus in 1957, Cleveland police without a warrant invaded the home of a woman named Dollree Mapp on a tip that they would discover policy slips and a bombing suspect. Finding neither, the cops handcuffed Miss Mapp and searched on until they found "obscene material." She was charged with possession of it and was convicted. When the Supreme Court...
Indonesian pressure on Malaysia-originally urged in 1961 by the P.K.I. -has raised Malaysia's defense costs nearly fivefold (to $70 million this year, with an estimated $300 million anticipated by 1970). The Tunku's government has been forced to take emergency measures, including arrest without warrant and banning of strikes. Dissidents of every stripe, from straight Chinese Communists to reactionary Malay opportunists, are using the "confrontation" issue with Indonesia to serve their own purposes. Clearly the P.K.I, had plenty to celebrate last week...
...court's critics argue that Mapp handcuffs the police. "Is this not a better country when the police cannot break down doors without a warrant and make use of any evidence they may seize...
...sniper fire kept on. At week's end, a group of snipers popped up in the evacuation base at Haina, twelve miles west of Santo Domingo, and killed a marine warrant officer, while three more paratroopers were wounded in the city proper. By now, the U.S. casualty toll was 13 dead, 72 wounded. Offshore cruised a 32-ship U.S. task force. On board were more U.S. Marines ready and waiting...
...White Paper describing his plan before coming forward with an actual bill. There is good reason for this unusual procedure. By calling for a vote on the White Paper, which is likely to come within the next two weeks, he could shrug off defeat as not important enough to warrant resignation of his government-then trim the terms of his steel nationalization plans so as to win over the two or three marginal votes needed to carry his slim margin when the vote comes on the actual bill itself. Inevitably, the cry "slippery" rose again as Wilson pushed ahead with...