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...rounds from 81-mm. mortars smack into the compound where 400 U.S. advisers lived. They were right on target. Fifty-two billets were damaged, including some totally destroyed. In one, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who happened to be in Pleiku visiting his son Bruce, a 21-year-old U.S. Army warrant officer, leaped up at the first mortar blast, scampered outside in his underwear (see THE PRESS). Within 15 minutes, the guerrillas pulled back, covering their retreat with recoilless rifles and rifle grenades. Seven Americans died, more than 100 were wounded, and nearly a score of aircraft was damaged or destroyed...
...raped, the handyman fled to Soperton, Ga., where he was captured. With Miller safely in jail, a Connecticut county detective and a Westport police sergeant went to Soperton and examined the suspect's car without taking the time or trouble to ask his permission or obtain a search warrant. When the car was brought back to Connecticut, it was examined again-still without a warrant. The upholstery was crawling with samples of Gail Sillan's blood and hair. Despite defense objections, that evidence was admitted at Miller's trial...
...every search without warrant is illegal," noted Judge Comley. "For example, a search which is an incident to a lawful arrest is proper." But the search of Miller's car was "remote from the arrest both in time and space." The U.S. citizen's immunity from such illegal search is a cornerstone of the Constitution, and the court was guarding against any erosion of that immunity...
...visits such havens as Hawaii in the company of his secretary. (When Congress convenes, he also rarely attends.) But even so, the net is closing. In 1908 the Supreme Court ruled that Congressmen are not immune from criminal as opposed to civil arrest, and New York issued a criminal warrant for Powell last July. It stems from his alleged fraudulent transfer (evading the libel payment) of a $900 check that Esquire paid him for an article ironically titled "The Duties and Responsibilities of a Congress man of the United States." According to the charge, Powell had the money paid...
...York judge who issued the criminal warrant mercifully stayed its execution "during session of the Congress." But the judge can always modify her mercy. Meanwhile, Powell has petitioned the Supreme Court for review of the libel judgment, which was upheld by New York's highest state court. The Supreme Court may be ready to accept or reject Powell's appeal on Jan. 18. If it turns him down, the libel judgment will be final...