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...Rape, Murder & Life. Typical is the recent case of Marine Sergeant Charles Wilkerson. While on patrol, he disappeared into the bushes with a suspected V.C. prisoner. Two shots were heard; Wilkerson returned alone. Hours later, another Marine patrol came across the body of the prisoner, his hands still tied behind his back. Within two months, Wilkerson was before a general court-martial, charged with murder. He admitted the shooting, but claimed he had been ordered to do it. Testified Wilker son: "The lieutenant said: 'Pull out of the column and kill him.' " One other member of the patrol...
...main case against p.r. is not that it brainwashes people -it is not really powerful enough to do that. As New School Sociologist Ernest van den Haag says, "Public relations can seduce, but it cannot rape." What is often most troubling is that p.r. can place a kind of shield between the public and reality. It creates the feeling that smiles are not quite real, laughter not quite spontaneous, wit not quite unrehearsed, praise or blame not quite from the heart, elegance not quite instinctive, courage not quite brave and virtue not quite clean. The best p.r. men know...
Some of these tactics sound far out, but they seem to be working. Although Mississippi judges frequently sentence Negroes to death for rape and murder, a determined group of lawyers has managed to block every Mississippi execution for close to three years, mainly on the basis of the contention that juries there are segregated. The A.C.L.U. and Legal Defense Fund have already obtained a restraining injunction in Florida that bars any executions until the suit is decided. A decision on the California injunction request is due this week. Since both sides in the Florida case have promised to appeal adverse...
...inevitable," said the policy statement. It condoned abortions on essentially the same grounds as those recommended by the American Law Institute, already voted into law in Colorado, North Carolina and California. Among the differences: the A.M.A. would require "documented medical evidence" of the need for an abortion, and rape or incest would have to be "legally established...
Felony is a catchall word for crimes punishable by anything from more than one year's imprisonment in a penitentiary to death.* In some states, it includes everything from murder and rape to seduction under promise to marry, and even conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor. The trouble with this sweeping definition is that felons often suffer a further punishment-a loss of civil rights that is "often harsh out of all proportion to the crime committed...