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...unwarned suspect later takes the stand, his pretrial statements to the police can be used to impeach his courtroom testimony. In sharp dissent, Justice William J. Brennan argued that the effect of the decision is that police may now "freely interrogate an accused incommunicado" despite Miranda; the accused may then see his own careless words convict him "if he has the temerity to testify in his own defense." Brennan's argument failed to move Burger, who dismissed "the speculative possibility that impermissible police conduct will be encouraged...
...trust Mr. Lockwood will include in his Center the document. "From the Prisons of Cuba-A Cry for Help!" which appeared in the May-June number of the socialist magazine Dissent. The document is signed, with all names given, by 47 political prisoners held in the political prison La Cabana in Cuba. The document was dated December 1969 and submitted to the United Nations through the League for the Rights of Man, a civil liberties organization headed by Roger Baldwin, the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Healing Glimpse. Undoubtedly the Nixon Administration has contributed to the new, calmer mood, both by commission and omission. The cautious withdrawal from Viet Nam has largely disarmed the antiwar movement. "Repression," real or imagined, has also stilled a lot of dissent. For all their unfairness, Spiro Agnew's attacks on the press have made many practitioners in journalism and TV a little more cautious about playing up news of dissent. The election results of last fall had a healing effect, for they gave the nation a glimpse of itself, in the kinds of candidates it accepted and rejected...
...privileged vanguard of the second world revolution? Because, says Revel, America has invented a new revolutionary method that other nations have been incapable of engendering on their own. That method is dissent, "a revolutionary judo without precedent," an "all-enveloping and erratic sedition" with which governments cannot cope. For the revolution to succeed, there must be widespread criticism...
...following spring, shortly after the occupation of University Hall, Bunting once again became a symbol of controversy. This time it was for the Radcliffe Council's decision to put 17 students on probation who had not satisfactorily prepared a symposium on dissent that was their "punishment" for the Paine Hall...