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Under existing law, "it is not enough," Stewart emphasized, that state officials have acted "illegally and corruptly," that "the charges against the defendant are false," or that the defendant will not get a fair trial. If people "are being prosecuted on baseless charges solely because of their race, then there has been an outrageous denial of their federal rights, and the federal courts are far from powerless to redress the wrongs done to them...
...British Novelist Anthony Burgess flew home from Brunei, where he had spent five years as an educational consultant to the Sultan, to undergo examination for a suspected tumor of the brain. The suspicion proved baseless, and after six weeks in London's National Hospital, Burgess was released, sound as a pound. In most men, the experience would have produced no more than a sigh of relief. In Burgess, it excited the wild flight of imagination that produced this novel...
...definitive action--smuggling a prisoner across the border--is by his own admission performed only to get the man away from his mistress, even though he has no grounds for suspecting a liaison between them. Although others in the book comment on his courage, his only real motive is baseless jealousy. There seems to be nothing in this man worth writing about, no interests or emotions. And any story seen from his viewpoint must be as pointless and dull...
Court processes dragged on interminably, though virtually all government officials were by then privately admitting that the charges against Ebtehaj were baseless. Recently, he was offered an important advisory post with the World Bank, and it was this perhaps that stirred action in the prosecutor's office. Last week, a government lawyer produced a detailed decision. Ebtehaj, 64, could breathe easily. All the charges were "without foundation," said the prosecutor, and the case was closed...
This assumption of reciprocity is, at least as of 1962, quite baseless. Although we often go much too far in assuming that we are entirely sinless and they totally evil, reaction to this exaggeration should not lead us into the other trap of equating two societies which still have very distinct interests and very distinct assumptions about the permissable uses of power. It still is our great interest to prevent the expansion of Soviet political hegemony, and all the evidence still indicates that the threat of force remains an indispensable tool of prevention. Soviet society has changed since the Stalin...