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Russia is being ruled now by the nine-member Presidium, apparently held together by an "extraordinary discipline," Harold J. Berman, professor of Law and research associate of the Russian Research Center, said at a U.N. Council forum on "The Reorganization of the Soviet Power Structure" last night...
...chief and possibly fatal weakness in the organization of the Presidium is the lack of a pre-determined method of succession to power, he continued. While such a situation appears to invite dissension, Berman reminded his audience that the majority of Presidium members have held their posts for 15 years or more...
Although Nikita Khruschchev now is party secretary, considered the position of most authority in the Soviet state structure, Berman feels that he has no more power inside the Presidium itself than any of the other members...
Harold J. Berman, professor of Law, agreed with this finding of the faculty committee. Such a general education course, he said, would "not in any sense make lawyers out of college students, but make better citizens...
Last November, Berman headed a three-day conference which studies the teaching of Law in the liberal arts curriculum. Although three are undergraduate general education legal courses, his report said that those courses are usually taken only by students who go on to Law School...