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WELFARE. A five-man majority recently ruled that welfare recipients are constitutionally entitled to hearings before their stipends are cut off. Burger's dissent typified his view that the court should not intervene when other parts of Government have recently acted. Arguing that regulations going into effect this summer will give welfare clients the same rights as the court ruling, Burger rapped the majority's action as "another manifestation of the now-familiar constitutionalizing syndrome: once some presumed flaw is observed, the court then eagerly accepts the invitation to find a constitutionally 'rooted' remedy. We ought...
...soon as a young man turns 18, he is required to register for the draft. But what if he does not do so within the five-day grace period provided by law? Although few people realize it, the Government has no official system for detecting the 18-year-olds who fail to register. Last week, a five-man majority of the Supreme Court decided that if the Government does not discover and prosecute a non-registrant for his dereliction within five years after the grace period ends, he cannot he prosecuted at all. The three dissenting Justices complained that even...
Last week a five-man military court was convened for that purpose in Saigon. Neither of the accused turned up; Ho had fled the country and Chau had retreated to the National Assembly building. The kangaroo court got under way an hour before schedule, and by the time Chau's lawyer turned up at 9 a.m. it was all over; he was even denied the right to speak because he was late. Ho was sentenced to death, and Chau to 20 years' imprisonment...
...memorandum to be distributed this morning, the five-man committee appointed to set up the meetings said the new format was designed to insure a "more conversational and more direct" discussion than Friday's open meeting...
...Roxbury Tenants of Harvard proposed on Saturday a five-man committee to consider the issue of maintenance repair as it relates to a rent increase which the University is now contemplating for housing in the medical area...