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Ormes, who did not threaten to disrupt the program, met with the Law Forum's executive board Wednesday which agreed to cancel the debate...
...SCHOOL's decision to cancel a scheduled debate between William Shockley and Roy Innis is an indefensible solution to a difficult, but resolvable problem. The Law Forum created the problem for itself when it invited Nobel Laureate Shockley and CORE president Innis to debate Shockley's controversial genetics theories...
...Forum's executive board said they decided to cancel the debate because they feared "disruptions." Any pressure on the Law Forum was unfortunate and unnecessary, but it was an insufficient excuse to cancel the meeting. The pressure undoubtedly would have subsided when the speakers demonstrated their ignorance of genetics and the absurdity of their ideas, and the audience expressed bored disapproval...
Last week Schultz filed a petition for a retrial of the men, which if accepted by Sirica would cancel his planned review of their sentences. Schultz argued that the men originally pleaded guilty in the belief that they were protecting "national security interests" by doing so. Now they believe they were deceived and made victims of a "cruel fraud." Barker once denied that anyone had pressured the four conspirators into pleading guilty last spring but now says it is a matter of "interpretation" and for the judge to decide. It is known, however, that Schultz is preparing a suit against...
...increase on gasoline and a 2?-per-gal. hike on fuel oil that the company posted Aug. 20. If the company's data do not convince the COLC that the boost was forced by increased costs, chiefly for buying imported crude oil, it may be ordered to cancel the rise. Such actions are needed, says COLC Director John Dunlop, because "rapidly increasing prices for gasoline are one of the biggest contributors to inflation in this country...