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WHILE President Nixon was still preparing for his good-will working tour of Western Europe, the long-simmering feud between Great Britain and Charles de Gaulle's France burst into the open once again. As before, the casus belli was Britain's bid for membership in the Common Market, which De Gaulle has repeatedly vetoed. Washington was dismayed, since the dispute would hardly enhance the atmosphere of mutual understanding and cooperation that Nixon ardently hoped to cultivate...
...NEWS SPECIAL: THE TRIAL LAWYER (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Four of America's most successful attorneys for the defense-. Lee Bailey, Edward Bennett Williams, Melvin Belli and Percy Foreman-discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the trial-by-jury system...
...that proved in the crunch to be inadequate, unimaginative and unbelievably overconfident. It will probably take years to dissect and document all the slippages and oversights that have led the U.S. to the brink of a second front in Asia. It is already apparent that this was a casus belli that need never have arisen...
Draconian Draftsmanship. The casus belli was posed by Hershey's celebrated letter of Oct. 26, advising the nation's 4,081 draft boards to induct any draftdeferred protester whose actions were not in the "national interest." The Justice Department, all too aware in 20th century terms of the legal trouble "delinquents" and their families could make, held that so clearly punitive a process seemed to be indefensible under the First Amendment. Hershey, however, is a 19th century man, unread in constitutional law but totally committed to what used to be called Americanism...
Beatles' Sheets. KQED's major focus and strength, though, is local. It claims more than 440,000 viewers a week. Among them: Mayor John Shelly, Lawyer Melvin Belli, Shirley Temple Black, who is a member of KQED's board of directors, and 36,000 other Northern Californians, who devotedly donate a minimum $12.50 annual membership fee that provides more than a quarter of the $2,400,000 budget. Another $200,000 to $300,000 comes from a wild annual public sale that in the past has attracted Auctioneers Ronald Reagan, Willie Mays and Bishop James Pike...