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...case of injustice. Tens of thousands of Illinois citizens signed protest petitions and inundated Governor James Thompson's office with phone calls, telegrams and letters. How, everyone wondered, could Cook County Judge Richard Samuels have done it? The judge, after allowing Convicted Rapist Gary Dotson a few days of freedom on bail, had then sent him back to prison, despite the fact that his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, had retracted her accusation. But while most members of the legal community shared the public discomfort with the outcome of Dotson's case, they recognized that it rested on sound legal...
...move by the Congress to impose economic sanctions against South Africa [NATION, June 17] is a step in the right direction. It may be true that those most affected by the sanctions will be black people. But it may also be true that these initial sacrifices will bring freedom and dignity to the people of South Africa. Hari Govindraj New York City
...last month the California commission on the teaching profession began consideration of two long-range programs to lure and hold crack teachers: the creation of a prestigious new professional school for well-compensated master teachers and the funding of "key" schools, where administrators and teachers would have the freedom and money to develop the education materials and techniques of the future...
When the boy was eight, a temporary depression aroused his mother's anxieties. "A little alarmed," she later recalled, "I asked him whether he was unhappy. He ... said very seriously, 'Yes, I am unhappy.' When I asked him why, he ... exclaimed, 'Oh, for freedom...
...former editor at several Mississippi newspapers, Speakes worked as a press officer for both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Since he took over the job of acting press secretary when James Brady was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on the President, however, Speakes has not enjoyed as much freedom as some of his predecessors, notably Jody Powell in the Carter Administration. Some reporters, sensing that Speakes does not have complete access to Reagan's inner circle, take out their frustrations on him, thus contributing to the combative tone of the briefings...