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...attorneys claimed that the incriminating gun should not have been used as evidence because the vagrancy statute invoked to arrest him was later ruled impermissibly vague. Rice's lawyers contended that the explosives found in his house should not have been admitted in court because the search warrant was found afterward to have been issued without sufficient cause...
...been used in a liquor-store shooting the day before in San Bernardino, Calif. Powell, now 29, was convicted of the killing. In August 1970, police in Omaha were angrily investigating the bombing murder of a fellow officer; though they had little to go on, they got a search warrant from a local magistrate, went through the house of David Rice, a member of a Black Panther group, and found 14 Ibs. of dynamite and other bomb ingredients. Rice, now 28, was sentenced to life imprisonment...
...confirmation, Vidal immediately dropped his isolationism. On July 30, 1943, he joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army and later landed in the Transportation Corps. He spent some months as a warrant officer aboard a freighter plying the seas around the Aleutians. Vidal used the empty hours to begin Williwaw, a Hemingwayesque tale of men at sea. By the time he was discharged in 1946, he had finished it and a second novel as well. When Williwaw was published that March, Vidal was heralded as a prodigy of American letters...
David Stein, circulation director of The Real Paper, the Phoenix's main competitor, said yesterday The Real Paper will continue to use hawkers "as long as sales warrant...
Loyalists obviously don't count for too much in Vichy because the plan is rammed down the judiciary's throat. Eventually they have to find judges and prosecutors reactionary enough to preside over this mockery of justice. Charges severe enough to warrant execution must be drummed up on at least six people. It's an obvious sham and everybody realizes it--but no one has the guts to contradict orders from above. Only fascist sympathizers or unscrupulous self-serving careerists are willing to be involved with this travesty, and even some of these feel the weight of their consciences...