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...critics are demanding to know why other alleged terrorists held at Guantánamo and elsewhere should not receive similar treatment, instead of languishing in a facility that even President Bush has said he wants to be able to shut down. Allowing hundreds of defendants there to enter U.S. courts???and, if convicted, U.S. prisons?may be the only way to accomplish that...
...nation may well be poised on a fateful fulcrum that will either tip predominant sentiment toward a new faith in its fundamental institutions?including Congress, the Constitution and the courts???or send it into a trough of public despair and anomie. The direction will depend to a large degree upon how many members of Congress, Government
...affair of the Pentagon papers went into its second incredible week, antiwar partisans seemed to be manipulating basic U.S. institutions?the press, Government, and even, in a sense, the courts???to stage-manage a dramatic presentation of their views far beyond the wildest dreams of the most zealous campus radicals. It was surely the slickest counter-Establishment insurgency of recent times. The climax was the sudden appearance on national television of the man who started it all. There was Daniel Ellsberg, once the gifted and aggressive war planner, speaking softly but leveling the harsh charge that Americans bear the major...
...netted the taxpayers $600,000?no problem when inmates get 20¢ an hour. Inmates also provided the prison's few amenities. Many cells are jammed with books, pictures, record players and tropical fish in elaborate tanks. There are two baseball diamonds, three miniature golf courses, tennis, basketball and handball courts???all equipment paid for by the inmates' recreation fund...
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