Word: barnetts
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Speaking at the opening session of the China Conference of the Collegiate Council for the United Nations, Robert Barnett, deputy assistant secretary of state for Far-Eastern affairs, said the "dogmatic" policies of the Peking Regime were leading the country to economic "disaster," a situation which brings hope for eventual changes...
Traditionally outside this command is the power of federal judges to enforce their orders by trying errants for criminal contempt without a jury. Last week the Supreme Court again followed the tradition by denying jury trials to Mississippi's ex-Governor Ross R. Barnett and his successor, Paul B. Johnson Jr., both charged with what Justice Arthur Goldberg called the "extraordinarily serious" crime of obstructing federal orders to desegregate the riot-torn University of Mississippi...
...Barnett and Johnson now face trial before the Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which, having split 4 to 4 on the question, had asked the high court to decide whether the case should be tried with or without a jury. The Mississippians had hoped for the former, counting on sympathetic Southern jurors. But how they fare now is almost unimportant compared with the ramifications of last week's decision. For only by the narrowest margin of 5 to 4 did the Supreme Court uphold summary criminal-contempt power. And in so doing, it seemed to grant...
However, there are curbs on this power. If Barnett and Johnson were charged with contempt of a federal district court, they could well argue for a jury trial under certain provisions of the 1914 Clayton Act. Such a court did in fact order Negro Student James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss. But Justice Tom Clark, speaking for the majority, put Barnett and Johnson squarely in the hands of the Court of Appeals, which had also enjoined them from interfering. Said Clark: "It would be anomalous for a Court of Appeals to have the power to punish contempt...
...keynote address at 7:15 p.m. tonight will be delivered by Robert Barnett, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. Stanley Hoffmann professor of Government, will give the conference's final address on "The Future of the United Nations" on Sunday...