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...testimony comes 10 days after Shattuck issued an ACLU report detailing the Administration's disregard for civil rights issues. The report lists numerous cases where the Administration has undermined previous Justice Department efforts and Congressional rulings on civil rights, Shattuck said...
...Drivers As an attorney, I feel a response is required to those who wrote letters criticizing lawyers who defend drunken drivers [Feb. 6]. It is sad that many people feel compelled to crusade against one group or another and then to use that forum to chastise attorneys. If we disregard the right to a defense of a group that is held in disfavor, then the protection of the law will potentially be unavailable...
Shultz's disregard for the Pentagon may have stemmed partly from his personal animus toward Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The men have been warily circling each other for years. In the Nixon Administration, Weinberger worked as deputy to Budget Director Shultz, then succeeded him. In 1975, Shultz was named president of the Bechtel Group Inc. (1982 sales: $13.6 billion), a construction and engineering firm; Weinberger followed Shultz there as a vice president. But Weinberger's service to Governor Reagan in California put him ahead of Shultz when the President picked his original Cabinet. After Shultz replaced Haig...
...latter of whom had been in disarray since the days of President Coolidge. But this year a new group of fundamentalists promises to have an important hand in opposing Reagan. That is, a new constituency of democratically minded citizens who, one hopes, will nay say Reagan's flagrant disregard for the spirit of the welfare state and the rights of free speech in America...
News of the assassination spread quickly. Lebanon's President, Amin Gemayel, expressed his condolences to U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew. Former Prime Minister Saeb Salam, a leader in the effort to unite the country's warring factions, called the murder "a flagrant disregard for values and an illustration of how seriously security has deteriorated." Particularly vulnerable at the moment are individual Americans and Frenchmen, partly because the terrorists are finding it increasingly difficult to penetrate the military bases and thus are turning their guns on relatively unprotected civilian targets. Two weeks ago gunmen on a motorbike shot and slightly...