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Stratton may decide not to tell his story directly to the jury. To bolster his side's credibility, his lawyers will call on Mailer and Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and Lyndon Johnson confidante. Mailer, who has known Stratton for more than 15 years and jointly owns a house in Maine with him, was in Portland last week and ready to testify. "Dick is a person of much integrity and courage," he says. No matter how many points character witnesses score for Stratton, the defense must counter the evidence that he was a participant. Explains Yale Law Professor Burke...
...PART OF the movement among minority groups to bolster third world unity, the national Black American Law Students Association (BALSA) will consider at its national convention later this week a resolution endorsing the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. The Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) which last spring formed a Third World Coalition with other minority law student groups, will consider the resolution today...
Though such a move might well bolster third world unity, for any group to declare formal support for the PLO would be misguided. Despite the show put on by PLO leader Yassir Arafat for Western journalists last summer, the PLO is a violent terrorist organization, not a political representative of the Palestinian people...
...members also discussed plans to support the Boston mayoral campaign of Melvin King, a local Black politician to bolster the Afro-American Studies Department, and to raise court fees for the discrimination case of Ephraim Isaccs, a former Afro-Am professor who was denied tenure at Harvard...
Young says the newsletter had been started to bolster awareness of women's activities on campus...