Court expands Miranda rule
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court
gave criminal suspects two important new tools
Monday for preventing their own words from
being used against them.
The court ruled that murder defendants-must
be warned about their rights to remain silent and
to have a lawyer's help prior to psychiatric testing
if the test results are used after conviction .to help
choose life or death as punishment.
And in a separate decision, the justices said
police cannot use information gained by initiating
new conversations with a criminal suspect who
previously refused to talk without his lawyer
present. :
. Both, rulings expanded or shored up the
controversial Miranda doctrine fashioned in 1966
by a Supreme Court generally viewed as more
liberal in its views of criminal suspects’ rights than
,'the present court. Both results came on unan
imous votes.
The psychiatric-testing opinion was authored
’ by Chief Justice Warren Burger, generally viewed
as one of the court’s most conservative members.
Justice Byron White, who 15 years ago
dissented from the Miranda ruling that required
police to warn suspects about their rights before
questioning them, wrote for the court in the
second case.
—making the news—
From Associated Press Reports
WASHINGTON — Discounting a top Senate Democrat’s
charge of “red-baiting,” Pres. Reagan’s prospective point
man on human rights asserted Monday that communists are
in fact among the world’s worst human rights violators.
Dr. Ernest Lefever told the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee he opposes human rights violations by right-wing
and communist governments alike.
But he added, "At present such gross violations are
perpetrated largely by adversary states, notably the Soviet
Union.
“Most communist regimes brutalize their own people and
some of them are engaged in exporting their repressive
systems by subversion and terrorism.”
Lefever was assailed by several Democrats during the
first of two days of confirmation hearings on his nomination to
be assistant secretary of state for human rights.
ROME — The first polling stations with results in Italy’s
referendum election today reported rejection by a 2-1 ratio of
a measure to ban abortions unless a mother’s life is
endangered. Voting was also heavily against liberalizing the
abortion law.
If the trend from less than 1 percent of the 78,796 polling
stations continues, Italy’s present law allowing free abortions
in clinics for women over 18 during the first trimester of
pregnancy will stand.
With 493 stations reporting completed counts on the
right-to-life movement-backed measure to further restrict
abortions, the vote was 40,539 for it to 87,506 against it
ROME — Police investigating the shooting of Pope John
Paul II said Monday there was only a “very, very remote”
chance the accused gunman was part of an international
conspiracy.
While Interpol agents in other countries were checking
statements made by the suspect, Mehmet Ali Agca, about his
travels since fleeing a Turkish prison, Italian authorities
circulated pictures of two of his hometown friends to Italian
newspapers.
In Turkey, three people are now in custody for their
alleged roles in helping Agca obtain the false passport found
on him after Wednesday's shooting.
Agca is charged with attempted murder of the pope,
whose recovery had progressed enough Monday to allow him
to be moved out of the intensive care unit at Gemelli Policlin
ico Hospital. Monday was the pontiff’s 61st birthday.
Sewage spills
into nearby
county waters
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -
Malfunctions at two sewage
treatment plants in Benton and
Lane counties caused more
than a million gallons of un
treated sewage to spill into
nearby waters, a spokesman for
the Department of Environmen
tal Quality said here Monday.
Department spokesman Mark
Fritzier said the spills, headed
for the Willamette River, forced
Corvallis residents to use alter
nate water sources.
Fritzler said two pumps broke
down Sunday at the plant at
Halsey, 20 miles south of Al
bany, spilling about 250,000
gallons of sewage into nearby
Muddy Creek.
He said the sewage would
eventually reach the Willamette
River, which supplies drinking
water for Corvallis.
A standby pump was to be
installed Monday afternoon to
prevent further leaks, the
spokesman said.
A malfunctioning switch at
the sewage treatment plant in
Cottage Grove caused more
than a million gallons of sewage
to spill into the Willamette Mon
day morning, Fritzler said.
The second spill also affected
Corvallis residents, Fritzler said,
but the city had already turned
off its water supply after the
Halsey spill.
Officials did not expect the
spills to endanger fish life, but
they advised residents to avoid
any kind of contact with the
water for several days.
Two officials plan to resign
over infant formula vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Charging that one
million Third World babies perish each year from
diseases brought on by bottle-feeding, two
government officials said Monday they will resign
when the Reagan administration carries out its
decision to vote against an international code that
says mothers' milk is best.
Administration officials don’t dispute that
breast feeding is preferable, but contend the code
represents an unwarranted attempt by the United
Nations to regulate how private business promote
their products.
Dr. Stephen Joseph and Eugene Babb, both
senior executives of the Agency for International
Development, issued their resignation threat
during a news conference at the American Public
Health Association.
Several prominent physicians joined them in
deploring the Reagan administration plan to cast
what is expected to be a solitary vote against the
code at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
The vote is set tentatively for Thursday.
The resignations apparently would make
Joseph and Babb the first top officials to quit over
Reagan administration policies. Both went to
work for AID during the Carter administration.
Joseph, a pediatrician who is the highest
ranking health professional at AID, charged that
the administration ‘‘has been swayed by the
self-interested arguments of the infant formula
lobby.”
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