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...Niarchos be tried under Article 311 of the Greek penal code, which corresponds to the Anglo-Saxon concept of involuntary homicide. Under Greek legal procedure, the prosecutor's recommendation now goes to a "penal council" composed of three magistrates, who must decide whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant bringing Niarchos to trial. If convicted under Article 311, Niarchos would face a maximum penalty of 18 years in prison...
Shaky Foundation. Rather than negotiate, President Pacheco has cracked down on the guerrillas. With no protests from the opposition Blanco Party, he received authorization from Congress to suspend civil rights for 20 days, thus permitting police to make searches without a warrant and to hold suspects without charge or an appearance before a judge. More than 12,000 police and military men are on the case. In their house-to-house search of Montevideo, they have already made 1,500 arrests and detained 75 suspects...
Cambridge police have yet to act on a warrant for the arrest of four suspended Harvard SDS students whom the University has had indicted for taking part in campus demonstrations last...
...ourselves into a result. By placing a premium on 'recent cases' rather than the language of the Constitution, the court makes it dangerously simple for future courts to operate as a 'continuing constitutional convention.' " SEARCHES. Police can seldom search and seize private property without a warrant. One longstanding exception permits searches "incident to" an arrest. Last week the court made clear another exception: when police have reason to search an automobile. Evidence in cars is highly perishable, the court said, because a car can rapidly be driven away. The court emphasized, however, that this rule does...
Alas, this may also be seen as a warrant for repression. It depends on the nature of the state. One wonders how far Walzer is proposing to dismantle the state and deny it the power to inhibit group formation. It would be unwise to hope that the struggle of right and left can regulate itself. In a capitalist society, such a struggle has only one outcome. Ultimately the state must impose its own law and order. Like it or not. American dissent subsists on creative state intervention...