Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touch, Bill Kunstler seems to show up as defense counsel. Kunstler, a Manhattan attorney, is a kind of courtroom paladin who specializes in protecting the right of dissent and even civil disobedience His recent clients include the Black Panthers, Negro Militant Rap Brown Yippie Jerry Rubin, and Roman Catholic draft protesters in Milwaukee and Baltimore. Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument...
Kunstler calls himself a "people's lawyer," and in court he plays the part for all it is worth, occasionally risking contempt of court. Defending nine Catholic draft-record burners in Baltimore, Kunstler advised the jury to ignore the judge's charge to them. Protesting the high bail for another Catholic group charged with the same crime in Milwaukee, Kunstler attacked the judge: "I don't think Your Honor will make his career on the bench with heavy bail. It makes the law look ridiculous...
...Senator: that is a record of the past. In January of 1968, Kennedy published a book about the future. In Decisions For A Decade, among other things, he set out a view of the confrontation politics of this year--a view he reiterated in an article on the draft in the November 17 New York Times Book Review: "I believe that widespread change is possible, peacefully, not only in selective service but in other institutions. I am equally convinced that brutal confrontations and violence will make this change more difficult. The need is, not to tear down the system...
...record to be proud of. Talk About America doesn't try to give the answers to our various dilemmas, but it's a worthwhile book nonetheless--the sort of thing to pick up on a gloomy night when you're tired of reading riot commission reports, memoirs of draft resisters, and radical solutions for the ghettoes...
...National Basketball Association last season, the newly franchisee! San Diego Rockets seemed more like Romper Room rejects playing ring-around-a-rosy. They lost 32 of their final 33 games and finished with a 15-67 record. No matter. By virtue of their low standing, the Rockets got first draft choice from the college crop...