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...1960s party liberals fought to get on the Judiciary Committee because it was a focal point of civil rights activism. The last great civil rights bill, open housing, came before the committee in 1966, but the body continued to attract young, feisty and ambitious liberals as it dealt with matters of criminal justice, women's rights and the presidential succession; most recently, it handled the nomination of Gerald Ford as Vice President...
...spoke and showed slides of Chilean art at Carpenter Center last week, was the most recent one in these parts--and it's possible to get from them at least a less distorted picture of some of the aspects of the Chilean revolution with which American newspapers never dealt...
Schlesinger sees no contradiction in the U.S.'s arming itself with new weapons at the same time that it seeks to disarm through agreement with Moscow. Russia, he says, "is still a totalitarian state" and must be dealt with "in a cautious process." He further explains: "It is necessary for the U.S. to participate in the maintenance of a worldwide equilibrium of forces, and this requires the American people to do what to some seems to be inconsistent: to pursue detente?an alleviation of political tensions?and to maintain an adequate defense capability. We want to have a relaxation...
...Germans are angry with the French for floating the franc and thus trying to underprice German exports; the Dutch are still seething over Britain's sauve qui peut attitude during the oil crisis; the French continue to deal with the Community in the same haughty way that they dealt with their colonies in the 19th century...
...Crisis. Then why the lawsuit? The university explained that its contract with the faculty allows it to fire professors -even those with tenure-on grounds of incompetence or "financial exigency"; the suit seeks to establish that a bona fide financial crisis does in fact exist. "Unless this matter is dealt with by a declaratory judgment," says the complaint, the university "will be faced with hundreds of different claims . . . which would in turn result in absolutely unbearable economic, legal and administrative burdens...