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After less than 30 minutes of one-sided discussion, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday approved without dissent a plan to replace the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) with a new disciplinary body...
...addition to criticism of Frankfurter, the account produced dissent from black civil rights lawyers, who say that it seriously underplayed their role in the case. Elman says he is "shocked" by the current commotion. Frankfurter "didn't regard me as a lawyer for any party," he told his Columbia interviewer. "I was still his law clerk." Indeed, the childless Frankfurter was renowned for treating former students and law clerks as an extended family, finding them influential jobs in Washington and turning to them as a sounding board for his thoughts...
...impact of the latest power struggle is hard to ignore. Last year's toleration of dissent is clearly at an end. Deng Liqun, a leading member of the party secretariat and the conservatives' chief ideologue, has shut at least seven liberal newspapers and journals since January and is reasserting party control over virtually all Chinese publications. Said a Communist official in a recent speech: "As everyone knows, journalism is a component of the party's undertakings and is its mouthpiece." Deng Liqun has also reinstated political indoctrination in China's schools. Peking University students must now attend two political classes...
...about these surfaces, fluently gliding over complexities. The dictator the Sandinistas overthrew, he asserts, was a rapist and a castrator; therefore, to call the Sandinistas totalitarian is "obscene." Somehow, the syllogism does not quite scan. Even criticisms of the leadership the visitor takes to be compliments, signs not of dissent but of democracy in action...
...candidate perceived as least likely to brook internal dissent is Manuel Bartlett Diaz. After successfully coordinating De la Madrid's presidential campaign, he was designated Secretary of the Interior. In that capacity, Bartlett, 51, had responsibility for overseeing the elections in Chihuahua, which many Mexicans believe were fraudulent. The third hopeful, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Minister of Planning and Budget, is credited with great intelligence and thought to be the most likely of the contenders to favor party reform. But Salinas has some deficits. He is young, only 39. And he has a reputation for dishing out criticism...