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Wiley was optimistic last night about the outcome of the case and expects that a favorable decision would greatly aid the rights movement. "The Justice Department has a beautiful case," he said. "If it's won, it will be a tremendous precedent in preventing future harassment and in bringing corrupt officials to justice...
...vicious circle," Moses said. "We try to register Negroes to vote in order to change a corrupt social system, and our workers get killed in the process. Then the government takes the murder case to a grand jury empanelled on the basis of that system...
While the play makes Maxime and his friends as mean-spirited as Bitos, it sides somewhat with the aristocrats. Those born to power may be corrupt, Anouilh seems to argue, but they know how to rule and they can dispassionately temper justice with mercy. But the arrivistes of power, the burning incorruptible zealots like Bitos-Robespierre, pursue justice so obsessively that they end up being savagely unjust. Anouilh masterfully unfolds the psychology of the revolutionary mentality, with its abstract love of "humanity" but contempt for individual men, together with the secret snobbery of the proletarian leader who greatly prizes...
...scene is hypothetical, but it has been endlessly conjured up to explain why Africa's most technically advanced nation still lacks mass television. In white-ruled South Africa, the government refuses to permit TV on the ground that it would corrupt both the white minority and nonwhite majority.* Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has more or less put TV in a category with atom bombs and poison gas. "They are modern things, but that does not mean they are desirable. The government has to watch for any dangers to the people, both spiritual and physical." Minister of Posts and Telegraphs...
...point out. ("Brooke has been more interested in headlines than real performance," Hennigan charges.) This fall strong charges of partisanship in Crime Commission affairs were levelled, after the indictment of former Governor Foster Furcolo. Last week, Furcolo charged that Commission chairman Alfred A. Gardener had violated an old "Corrupt Practices Act" that forbids gifts from state office holders to political candidates. Brooke has attempted to clear himself by pointing in another "explanatory opinion," to the fact that Gardener's $100 contributions was to the Brooke campaign committee and not a personal gift...