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Another issue calling for prompt action concerns the Viet Nam war. Nine suits brought by a total of some 489 reservists seek to have the court declare unconstitutional the 1966 Act of Congress under which they were ordered to Viet Nam. They claim, in part, that Congress cannot give the President such powers in the absence of a formal declaration of war or a national emergency. Justice Douglas ordered a delay in their departure to Asia. But the court majority, which has been reluctant to decide issues involving the legality of the war, is not likely to find much merit...
...dissent and the question of police powers over demonstrators are at issue in a number of cases. Negro Comedian Dick Gregory, for example, seeks to reverse a 1965 disorderly conduct conviction in Chicago'. Arrested during a demonstration near Mayor Daley's home, Gregory is challenging the police claim that they had a right to disperse peaceful protesters simply because angry hecklers near by might have become violent. Among the draft-dissent cases, the most important is an appeal from James Oestereich, who was reclassified from 4D (divinity student) to 1A by his draft board last year after...
...claim to indemnification for loss of life may be asserted if the persecutes has been deliberately or frivolously killed or driven to his death. It shall be sufficient if there is a probable causal nexus between death and persecution...
...power to recompense them. Yet the slender thread of civilized existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such imperfect payments and restraints as the law allows. In the process of tracing out the perplexities of just one claim, British Suspense Novelist Lionel Davidson (The Rose of Tibet, The Menorah Men) has created an odd, quiet novel that contemplates the limits of private responsibility and public guilt...
...moral judgments, clinging instead to those personal restraints and responsibilities that can be defined or implied by the law. Overriding them both is the Jew, Dr. Johann Zadik Grunwald, a crippled survivor of Dachau who journeys back to Germany for the first time since his escape to make a claim for an Israeli charitable organization...