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Hard-liners v. Technocrats. Never in Franco's rule had Spain's divisions been so deep or so public. The issue was not so much the Basques as the shape of post-Franco Spain itself. A rash of campus protests in Madrid and Barcelona nearly two years ago was all the excuse the generals needed to demand that Franco scuttle his five-year experiment in "liberalization" of state controls on the press, the labor unions and the universities-or face a military coup. There were signs last week that the hard-liners had summoned up the fading Falange...
...Nixon Administration faces a dilemma over how to react to the base at Cienfuegos. An outright confrontation with the Soviet Union, in an area deep within the traditional "U.S. sphere of influence," would almost certainly rule out the advancement of top-priority Administration objectives concerning the SALT talks, the war in Viet Nam, and the stalemate in the Middle East. The U.S. seems to be resigned to the presence of Soviet naval vessels in the Caribbean, with the submarines serviced in international waters from a tender based in Cuba. But it hopes that the Soviets will not force the issue...
...case came from Georgia and involved the fate of the hearsay rule in state trials. In general, that rule excludes statements made out of court. But the rule has many exceptions and qualifications. Georgia law, for example, sanctions hearsay evidence obtained from a conspirator against his co-conspirators in most circumstances. Many lawyers argue that this violates the defendants' Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against them...
Crucial Fifth. Justice John Harlan did not agree that the evidence was "peripheral," but he did concur in upholding the conviction. He argued that exceptions to the hearsay rule should not be weighed against the Sixth Amendment confrontation right at all. Instead, he gave priority to the due process clauses of the Fifth and 14th amendments, which, he says, ask whether or not the contested evidence compromised a fair trial. In Evans, he concluded that...
Earlier Z-grams had knocked out restrictions against men wearing civilian clothes on a base when off duty, opened a pilot program to allow first-class petty officers to carry any kind of clothes they wish aboard certain ships and to wear them when on liberty. The rule requiring dress uniforms when a ship arrives in port (when greasy gear and dirty lines must be handled) was eliminated. At least half the crew of a returning ship must be granted 30 days leave, and even when at sea, at least 5% of. a ship's crew must be allowed...