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...experts believe that the Weatherman faction of the splintered S.D.S. was involved in the Wisconsin bombing and has had a hand in most of the 150 major bomb and arson attacks in the U.S. in the past year. "It's going to get worse," Assistant FBI Director Charles Brennan predicted after the Madison explosion...
...might have got the charges dismissed or at least discovered key elements in the prosecution's case. Last week's ruling recognized for the first time the importance of affording defendants a chance to have such an active defense. Speaking for the majority, Justice William Brennan declared: "Plainly, the guiding hand of counsel at the preliminary hearing is essential to protect the indigent accused against .an erroneous or improper prosecution...
Speaking for the court, Justice William Brennan held that the 1962 decision was in error and "subsequent events have undermined its continuing validity." Moreover, Congress's enactment of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act put a new burden on the courts to cool labor disputes by upholding arbitration and similar techniques...
...sharp dissent, Justice Hugo Black defended the 1962 decision and deflated Brennan's explanation of the court's reversal. "Nothing at all has changed," said Black, "except the membership of the court and the personal views of one Justice." Indeed, Chief Justice Earl Warren, who had sided with Black, has been replaced by Warren Burger, who voted with the majority. Justice Potter Stewart, who upheld the anti-injunction law in 1962, voted against it last week...
...note of hardhat solidarity with the nation's rulers was sounded often. WE SUPPORT NIXON AND AGNEW, One sign read; GOD BLESS THE ESTABLISHMENT. The strange bedfellowship was not lost on Peter Brennan. head of Greater New York's Building and Construction Trades Council. "We're supporting the President and the country," said Brennan, "not because he's for labor, because he isn't, but because he's our President, and we're hoping that he's right." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany drew a similar distinction: he backed Nixon on Cambodia...