Word: commitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Others, on the other hand, seem to be part of the present administration's program: Avoid rhetoric tending to raise expectations, give intensive birth-control guidance to the "incompetent poor." intensify police patrol, permit "stop and frisk," "abridge" the freedom of those "extremely likely to commit violent crimes...
...such situations -proposed by the Nixon Administration-would be to legalize "preventive" pretrial detention, imposing it after the safeguard of a full hearing. Other reformers place greater emphasis on speeding trials to shorten the time in which an arrested suspect's rights might be abused or he might commit additional crimes. In view of the nation's chronic court congestion, however, the reformers also urge judges to take more immediate steps, freeing most defendants on reasonable bail and using ways other than jail to assure that they reappear for trial and behave lawfully. Obvious techniques include ordering close...
...Army last week filed charges against two more members of an America! Division company that attacked the South Vietnamese village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. Sergeant Charles E. Hutto, 21, of Tallulah, La., was charged with premeditated murder, rape and assault with intent to commit murder. Private Gerald A. Smith, 22, of Chicago, was accused of premeditated murder and indecent assault on a Vietnamese female. The action is preliminary to the possible convening of a court-martial for Hutto, now stationed at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash., and for Smith, assigned to Fort Riley, Kans. Trials already have...
...very great fear of pain. He had quantities of sedatives and sleeping drugs sufficient to commit suicide...
...enemy soldiers while losing only 285 themselves. Though the enemy casualty figures were probably inflated, there was no doubt that ARVN troopers had blocked the North Vietnamese from accomplishing their goals: 1) to take one or both of the camps by Christmas; 2) to force the U.S. to commit ground troops to the action, and 3) to discredit the ARVN...