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Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, is helping presidential candidate John Anderson challenge the constitutionality of state and federal laws which Anderson campaign officials contend hamper independent or third party presidential candidates...
...Justice Department contends that there is a logical distinction between the two groups of refugees. Says one official: "The standard is whether they would be persecuted, and very few Haitians can meet the standard." But the congressional Black Caucus charged last week that the U.S. policy is "racist," discriminating against Haitians. Supporters of the Haitians contend that Haiti's President Jean-Claude Duvalier is a right-wing dictator whose government is every bit as repressive as Castro's left-wing regime...
...does the Drinan decision apply to nuns, several of whom hold state elective office? The nuns point out that the church does not consider them "clergy"-they cannot say Mass, or perform any other priestly functions-and so they contend that they are not subject to the Pope's order on political involvement. Both the Vatican and the apostolic delegate in Washington say that the "spirit" of the ban against Drinan does apply to nuns. But several of the nuns say they will stay in office unless the Pope specifically orders them to quit. These nuns appreciate the irony...
Brzezinski's policy views, many colleagues contend, have been molded largely by a background of Polish intelligentsia and exile. Born into a moderately wealthy family in Warsaw, he was taken to Canada at the age often when his diplomat father was posted to Montreal before World War II. When the Soviets installed a Communist government in Poland after the war, the family was cut off from its homeland for good. Says one Columbia professor: "Brzezinski thinks like a Pole. With hundreds of years of Polish history behind him, he is pathologically opposed to Russia and its modern-day successor...
Outsiders claiming firsthand information from the Special Forces officers involved in the mission insist that earlier plans called for at least 600 men and 30 helicopters in the assault force. Some of these critics contend that the plan was scaled down by President Carter and his National Security Council in the belief that a smaller strike would prove less bloody, less provocative to Iran's Arab neighbors and more politically acceptable at home...