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Says Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boieny: "Tribalism is the scourge of Africa." Unless tribalism goes, adds Kenya's Minister of Economic Planning Tom Mboya, "much of what we have achieved could be lost overnight." Yet no African leader would stamp out tribalism overnight, even if he could. For safety's sake, the leaders themselves pack their governments with fellow tribesmen. Houphouet-Boigny keeps Baule kinsmen in key posts. In his heyday, Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah heavily favored aides from his Nzima tribe. Mboya, for all his brilliance, may never reach top power in Kenya because he belongs...
McCloskey said that "among the members of the Court, Justices Felix Frank-furter, William Douglas and Hugo Black have been best equipped intellectually to provide craftmanship-like opinions...
...ghetto. "They are not protecting us. They are controlling us." Karenga complains that the only function of Reddin's community councils is to release Negro frustrations through talk, without bringing effective action. Arthur Garcia, a Mexican-American spokesman, claims that only yes men sit on his community's councils. Felix Gutierrez, another Latin leader, notes that the L.A.P.D. still refuses to lower the height requirements so that Mexican-Americans, who tend to be shorter than other Angelenos, can join the force. (By contrast, New York has cut an inch off its previous 5 ft. 8 in. minimum to attract more...
...increasing degree leading?the activist bloc that has dominated the Warren court for the past 15 years. If he was not a surprise, he was, at least in one way, unique. The fifth Jew to sit on the bench?the others were Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter and Goldberg?he would be the first of his religion to hold the third highest office in the nation...
Even within the unemotional confines of the legal profession, the Warren court has often been attacked. Usually the line is drawn between two factions. There are those who, like the late Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, believe in strict judicial restraint, holding that the court exists not to make law but to interpret it rather strictly. And there are the judicial activists, who believe that many wrongs can be righted by following the broad mandate of the Constitution. The main thrust of the Warren court, particularly since Frankfurter's retirement in 1962, has been toward activism. This view...