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There were and are many who contend that Jackson was being framed for his political views in the Soledad case, just as he has been railroaded into a life sentence ten years before because his ignorance of the law, his poverty, race and previous record marked him expendable. Many of those who claim that Jackson is innocent question the possibility that he could have received--or that Drumgo and Cluchette will receive--a fair trial. It would have been in Jackson's case--and will be in the case of the other two Soledad Brothers--too easy for California officials...
...inescapable. The Palmer raids, in which thousands of aliens were rounded up in major American cities and deported en masse to Europe, have been compared to the McCarthy purges of the 1950's or the mass, indiscriminate arrests during the Washington Mayday demonstrations in 1971. Many would contend that the system of justice that convicted Sacco and Vanzetti lives on in the trials of the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Eight and Angela Davis...
Would it be better, as critics like former State Department Under Secretary George Ball contend, just to get the agony over with quickly by quitting the fight to save Taiwan? Is the seat that Chiang Kai-shek's regime has held in the U.N. for the past 26 years really worth all the trouble...
...described in his remarkable book, Soledad Brother, a collection of his prison letters between 1964 and 1970 with an autobiography, the annual shift between Chicago and Harrisburg represented a change from relative captivity to relative freedom. In Chicago, Jackson had to contend first and always with the efforts of his mother and then also with those of the teachers and administrators of St. Malachy to confine and bend him to their wills. As he was later to view them, his mother's efforts began before Jackson was born. "As testimony of her love, and her fear for the fate...
...announce a stepped-up withdrawal rate that will bring the U.S. involvement down from 213,900 troops now present to a residual force of about 40,000 by next spring. The men who remain will be mostly logistical troops and Air Force personnel. At that level, Administration leaders contend, the war will no longer be a big issue in U.S. politics. "No one will get worked up about it any more," argues one State Department official. "Everyone will just sigh with relief that we got out." The Administration's confidence that the war is no longer much...