Supreme Court extends protections to juvenile crime defendants
The Supreme Court rejects California’s 1969 ruling that a child can be found guilty with evidence largely against him. It upholds that a child cannot be punished unless the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt is clear. The decision reinforces rights like counsel and confrontation, while noting most cases will see clearer evidence and more thorough police and judicial processes.
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California Supreme Court
California
Nixon's Letters Show Quiet White House Frugality
Lawrence H. Zisman of Piscataway, New Jersey, wrote six letters to the President about Vietnam. Five criticized policy, the sixth praised, and he received only a printed card thanking him for thoughtful concern. The piece casts the President as frugal with White House stationery and silent on dissent.
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Nixon
Lawrence H. Zisman
Piscataway, N.J
Zisman
Vietnam
White House
Silent Majority
California enviro proposals aim for voter verdict in November
A State Assembly panel backs three environmental measures. An environmental bill of rights would obligate all government levels to protect nature. A gas tax diversion would fund air pollution control and rapid transit. A $500 million bond would finance sewage treatment and park purchases.
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State Assembly Select Committee On Environmental Quality
Malcolm Epley
State College
Los Alamitos
Anaheim
Cal. State
Long Beach
Seventh Street
College Park ‘Estates
Haynes
Bill L. Shelton
Community Letters Highlight School Film Preview Debate
A parent describes attending a fifth grade family life education film preview at Aloha School in Lakewood and approving the material. She questions other parents who did not participate in the review and suggests more oversight of school programs.
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ABC
Aloha School
Lakewood
Joanne E. Davies
California Textbook Reform Sparks Political Battle
California faces a clash over statewide adoption of the Educational Research Council of America social science program. The move, urged by Dr. Max Rafferty, pits improved ERC materials against a powerful local publisher and political foes who attack the foundation’s reputation to block the change.
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California
State Department of Public Instruction
Official Commission
Educational Research Council of America
Cleveland
Educational Foundation
Max Rafferty
Curriculum Commission
ERC
Educational Research Council
Defamatory ERC series spurs clash amid textbook policy debate
Russell Kirk led a set of articles published in an Ohio newspaper accusing the ERC and California textbook commissions of bias and liberal views on sex education. Editors halted the series, others attacked the paper in a radical broadsheet, and reprints spread widely. The struggle centers on influence of publishers and politics on school texts and minds of California pupils.
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ERC
Ohio
Cles
Ami
The
Elf
Council
California
Rafferty
Letters From America by William Edis review
A Harvard Press edition features letters by a loyal Englishman inside the Maryland governor's circle during the colonies crisis. It traces Maryland Virginia and New York views before the Revolution with notes on the Tex Party of 1774.
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America
William Edis
Aubrey C. Land
Harvard University Press
Maryland
Virginia
New York
Wall Street reform plan aims to chart social balance sheets
New York analyst Alice Tepper launches the Council on Economic Priorities to rate major corporations on social impact. The project, funded by private gifts, will publish positive results and guide investors and analysts toward humane, environmentally responsible, and socially conscious business practices. The council plans studies on race, pollution, military output, and overseas investments, with a Washington office at 1028 Connecticut Ave. and a summer intern program.
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Alice Tepper
America
Wall Street
Miss Tepper
Council On
Hig
Tor Benonson
Council
Connecticut Ave
Washington, D.C
Tepper
Cee
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