Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 22, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october 19m supreme court tackles ticklish undercover Issue by Ronald Ostrow Washington special tons the supreme Only three weeks into its new already faces what could be the terms toughest Job of balancing one important need of society against the justices Are confronted with this scale of at one is the constitutional guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures contained in the fourth am j Al the other end of the i is the use of informers j and undercover agents which police say Are needed to combat increasingly sophisticated forms of argument of the last of three cases involving the two pronged Issue wound up Early this i if the court followed customary the justices cast a preliminary vote on their decision during their highly secret now the Justice assigned to set Down the courts reasoning in writing probably has begun the rigorous the Opin Ion will be circulated among his the May be Tough enough to produce a its Likely to be several weeks before the result becomes official and is announced to the Public in the Marble court the decisions will command immediate Public attention Pri Marily because one principal is James the controversial teamsters Union the other cases involve Osborn a former Hoffa attorney and Duke Lee sentenced to five years in prison for Selling marijuana in violation of Federal jury tampering Hoffa is appealing a 1964 jury tampering conviction under which he was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined he contends that testimony of an Edward Grady a teamster official from Baton Louis violated three of his constitutional including the Protection against unreason Able search and Partin emptied served As doorkeeper at Hoffas hotel suite and ran errands for the teamster presi Dent during his 1962 trial on charges of violating the Taft constructive criticism is welcomed destructive criticism rejected by mayor Juba rhodos nothing magic in a name just a hard reputation for dedicated and honest from time to critic a proper interest has Ever cism has been directed at the cites expropriation of land for various projects More the lord Selkirk Park the criticism takes two forms that the City negotiates in secret and there by opens the door to fraud and corruption that the City is hurting property owners by not paying prices High enough for them to re place their such while per haps is the result of the critics Lack of knowledge or understanding of the cites practices and expropriation the cites present procedure was adopted by Council More than ten years ago following intensive it was de signed to establish impartiality in dealing with owners and to provide Sale guards against Collu Sion or favouritism in the negotiation been refused Access to these there is no place for parti san politics or lobbying in this the system is established As an administrative operated by qualified and impartial and disinterested subject always to the scrutiny and final approval of our elected representatives who established the finance committee has the final decision on a but no member of that committee or of Council As an Indi influence the i am also advised by t h e administrative staff that no member of Council has in fact Ever attempted to intervene in any negotiation with or to influence a so far As the sufficiency or otherwise of payments be ing made is the City can successfully answer sometimes we Are All properties and Busi accused of paying too Nesses expropriated Are appraised by experts in their these May be Archi chartered a or real estate Apas the Case they Are local selected for their professional ability and and for their the City does not interfere with their work or dictate their conclusions but All their work is subsequently checked and examined care fully and in detail by the City solicitors experienced in Urban renewal exp Opria All reports Are also examined in detail and criticized by representatives of the provincial government and cent ral mortgage and housing corporation All experienced with the City As sometimes of too we believe we Are paying the right As it is deter mined by the and controlled by the expropriation Laws passed by the Mani Toba it is sometimes overlooked by critics that the City has a dual responsibility which its staff and Council Are constantly aware of and governed on the one it must be fair to the owners of the prop erty expropriated we must not take advantage of their economic or emotional weak we try to do this by being consistent in our the poor Man and the the aggressive and the the Man who retains counsel and he who Doest All receive exactly a All settlements Are the same we approved by each one of these will not capitalize on anyone if one of weakness or but them the Case is a full report on each expropriation is then presented by the City solicitor to the committee on meet ing in these meet Ings Are necessarily because in discussing the claim of an owner with com it is necessary for the City solicitor to evaluate the neither will we be intimidated or influenced by threats or on the other the City must also fulfil its duty to the taxpayers of the City who ultimately pay the Bill it would be easy to forget this responsibility and to avoid their criticism by paying own ers what they want but this would be a Complete Badica owners and the cites Tion of our own often with sex and a fraud on the Public who press or implied comment on elect us to the competency or integrity the Rule of Law is a Corner of individuals involved in the this Frank expression of opinion is not possible in a Stone of our democratic form of under All persons Are equal and All re Public but is Neces chive equal the sary when the committee is considering the the committee then author izes a final offer to be made to the if it is a the claim is if it is not the Case is submitted to arbitration and heard by a panel of arbitrators in Public at this the proceed Ings being of a judicial the City May properly and publicly question and attack the the impartiality and the credibility of anyone giving and let the chips fall where they when not satisfied with the judgment of the the City and it City of Winnipeg observes this Rule in its Day today prac h is the Means by which the individual is protected against arbitrary and the Public from preferential treatment or i will not discuss particular at this to Illus trate the Points i have i will not turn the spotlight on or Embarrass any citizen of our City who snot in Public life or in a Public but anyone who wishes publicly to question particular cases will have a detailed and Public it is easy for a critic of to it needs no particular still or knowledge or it tells take cases on Appeal to sup us nothing and helps error courts for decision on completion of a constructive criticism is an other to Date i All files and records Are open Haven seen any such critic to members of no cism of the cites procedures records of any kind Are de except that which has come stroked before seven years from members of Council or have and no one with own City b you 85 million a siness vote 26 10 Hartley act by accepting million in payments from a trucking that trial ended in a Hung but largely on information supplied by Partin to eminent Hoffa and three co defendants were convicted of jury tampering two years Osome is asking the supreme court to overturn his conviction for attempting to bribe a prospective juror in Hoffas jury tampering he received a sentence of years in prison and a to Nab the government used an informer armed with a two fed eral judges approved the procedure in Lewis was convicted Selling the buyer was a narcotics agent who posed As a Saloon a deeper and purchased the drugs in Lewis the common thread tying the cases is the claim that the government gathered testimony and evidence by Means of stealth and deception and violated private premises without a search police Powers in the Lewis for sex his lawyer claimed that upholding the conviction would greatly enlarge police the people could never be certain that the milk rabbi or repairman coming into the Home or being met in the Street is not some government agent Bent on spy ing into the privacy of the House or someones personal affairs whenever and wherever such a meeting takes the at Torney what great distrust of the government this situation would create among the he but government attorneys cited what they called the supreme courts consistent recognition of the necessity at times to use artifice and stratagem in the detection of they pointed out that the same Congress that proposed the Bill of including the Protection against unreasonable search and passed Laws rewarding urging the court to reject Hoffas assistant Fred Vinson said that a ruling in favor of the teamster president would very seriously hamper the govern ments use of penetration by Vinson is essential to establishing proof of such crimes As gambling and narcotics crimes in which victims dont complain to jury though Vinson didst mention would be among these which strike at the body politic rather than individual Vinson said such crimes Are not Only difficult to but often difficult to attorneys arguing the appeals saw the coming of the police state As much More of a Fine Points to the the crimes involved in these cases Merit More attention than the Fine Points of constitutional after the citizens might Hoffa most Likely tried to fix that and Lewis is a dope but its a truism about this nations unique supreme court that very often the individuals involved in cases that produce new interpretations of constitutional Law Arent Likely to win society in each of the it is just possible that the court May not reach its decision on the basis of the fourth instead the justices could Settle on other no trips planned for Pope Vatican City Pope Paul has no immediate plans for any foreign a Vatican spokesman said Faust head of the Vatican new press of denied reports that Pope is to go to Montreal for expo to Viet nam and to for the inter National eucharistic Congress in since his election in the Pope is been to the holy India and the United nations in new two super alliances bogged by stalemate o15 v j bullfight fans meet new York forty bullfight enthusiasts have founded a club in new York they meet once a month and hear talks about famous paint ers of bullfight the Lee Weiner has been a fan nearly 30 years Ever since a trip to Mexico and has a Library of some 150 books on by Aua Aramm special tons Karl Marxs remark that Hist Ory repeats first As then As appears a fit description at the state of the two great nut Iury political affianced confront my each other in Europe on the eve of the 10th anniversaries of the revolution and the suet incas both the com mums War saw pact and the Western North Atlantic treaty organization neither of which has fully recovered from the con sequences of Hungary and Suez again Are demonstrating their inability to agree on much More than the platitudes of the status the great Between us and is in the european East and to the continuing Disso Lution of the old the pity and terror of 1mb have been replaced by a rather worldly amusement at the difficulties and hesitations of the two great atomic in the communist Sun Mit Meetin summoned to condemn red China has drawn Only nine nations compared with the 12 who attended a similar Parley in 1957 Aad the leaders of i communist parties Wop joined in the futile Rosso chinese Compromise of even nine May be one too Many to obtain unanimous approval of the course recently in the soviet the arrival of Romanias Independent minded Nikolae Ceausescu in Moscow Early this week put a Swift end to reports forecasting United anti peking newcomer Ceausescu is a relative newcomer to the ranks of bloc but Edvard the yugoslavs number two who arrived in Moscow thursday and May or May not meet with the nine a 4e elder statesman of non is has been preaching the dissolution of in fair diplomatic weather and for some 15 it seems hardly Likely that either Ceausescu or Kardels has come to Moscow to bless any Strenth Enins of the Warsaw pact or communist unit More Likely Thev have to prevent any such alongside the comm Summit meeting or the difficulties of British and West German negotiators who began meeting Here thurs Day seem relatively inspect act the three teams of begot wants do not have to worry much about red China or Viet nam they Are merely to launch a searching re appraisal of Allied troop Dis positions in Western the three Powers i involved Are agreed about prac 1 tidally nothing the extent of the soviet the Allied Force level required to meet the i Basic strategic the role of nuclear the Means of financing the Western Mili tary presence in the labors of the tripartite negotiators Are made even More difficult by the unusually con fused state of the Bonn govern and by the suspicions of 12 other nato members of anything resembling a three Power a year which Start Jed out with British and German spokesmen preaching Jde finance of French president Charles de Gaulle and renewed nato to bar with suddenly discovering to be after May accept terms even West German foreign Gerhard ready six months ago to expel two French divisions from West German is preparing to president de Gaul Les once unacceptable terms for their continued the nato Council will meeting in december once again in and the american British German talks starting Here this week May Well end up there As Welt while some officials i both Washington and Moscow May deplore the disarray in the two hardly any europ East or seem very worried about quite a in believe the increasing diversity and diplomatic free play of the late 60s a great improvement on the rigid confrontations of explosion diverts water Moscow Reuters rus Sian engineers Friday staged a giant explosion to divert a dangerous River away from Alma capital of soviet kazakh Tass news Agency said tons 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