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...Congress is scheduled to adjourn late this week, after Premier Aleksei Kosygin discusses Russia's new economic program, which is also guaranteed to be praised by an assortment of party officials, ordinary comrades and visiting dignitaries. The strongest notes of dissent last week came from Italy's Berlinguer and from Gaston Plissonnier, leader of the French Communist delegation. Berlinguer proclaimed that his party would be willing to cooperate with widely divergent ideologies within "a pluralistic and democratic system." Next day, Plissonnier declared that France's Communists would seek "a socialism of the French sort" including "the guarantee...
Fair Chance. Of course the court was not contemplating giving up its power to review state supreme court decisions, but the high bench seems of a collective mind to turn more final authority back to the state courts. Three years ago, Justice Powell wrote a dissent-which three colleagues largely supported-arguing that federal habeas inquiries in state convictions should be limited to the question of whether the prisoner had a fair chance to raise his claim in state court. He further argued that there is now virtually no finality to any criminal adjudication, and the right of a prisoner...
Associate Justice Byron White, who wrote a partial dissent opposing this part of the court's ruling, raised an intriguing question. "Let us suppose that each of two brothers spends one million dollars on TV spot announcements ... urging the election of the same candidate in identical words," said White. "One brother has sought and obtained approval of the candidate; the other has not. The former may validly be prosecuted ... under the court's view, the latter may not, even though the candidate could scarcely help knowing about and appreciating the expensive favor...
Irving Howe is one of those writers for whom the designation "a gentleman and a scholar" was minted. Professor of English at New York's Hunter College, literary critic and editor of the democratic-socialist magazine Dissent, Howe belongs to an intellectual tradition in which literature and politics, aesthetics and morals are not mutually exclusive...
Many of the attacks against Nasser involve his brutal repression of political dissent within Egypt. Publisher Ibrahim Abdou recently completed his third anti-Nasser book; in it he calls Nasser's prisons "more inhumane than Hitler...