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...established as constitutional rights in the very infancy of the Republic, when the ten amendments collectively known as the Bill of Rights were welded to the U.S. Constitution. Since then, the courts have refereed a seesaw struggle to define the line between freedom and license. Last week, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court unanimously advanced the boundaries of press freedom-and of free speech-farther than they have ever legally reached before...
...Severe Disadvantages. The landmark Griffin v. Illinois decision held that constitutional rights were violated by a state law under which defendants had to purchase a transcript of the trial be fore they could appeal to a higher court...
Nkrumah's steamroller tactics to assure a yes vote for his constitutional referendum stood out as a landmark of sorts in African electoral history. Technically, citizens could vote yes or no on whether to make Nkrumah's Convention Peoples Party the nation's only legal party. But in hundreds of places the "no" boxes were sealed up or nonexistent. All the ballots carried the voter's registration number, which would make it easy to see who voted no. In Accra's Ward 22, the registration was 1,834, yet the official count showed...
Stretching its wheelbase, spreading its track, strapping its concrete bands across the land, the encroaching automobile inches humanity back and back -sheering off a landmark for a thruway, gobbling up a park for a parking garage, turning field and forest into filling station and shopping center. But pockets of resistance are beginning to develop. The latest turned up last week in that cradle of American resistance -Boston...
...Monrovia last week William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 68, was inaugurated President of Liberia for the fifth time. Almost each inauguration has given a landmark to the country-a monument here, an assembly hall there. This time, 2,000 workers, about a fifth of Monrovia's labor force, and 150 foreign technicians have been working against time to complete the new executive mansion...