Word: glassers
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...free. The task force also proposed limiting habeas corpus petitions, which allow prisoners to try repeatedly to get their convictions thrown out on constitutional grounds. Both recommendations, along with bail reform, have drawn heavy fire from civil libertarians. "It's a public relations fraud," complains Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "They want to appear to be doing something about crime, but what they're really doing is fooling with the Constitution...
...Viet Nam has brought forth excellent work: Ron Glasser's 365 Days, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, James Webb's Fields of Fire, Phil Caputo's A Rumor of War. Now, more veterans seem to be emerging from their long, isolated silence. They have recorded their memories of the war in two new oral histories: Al Santoli's Everything We Had and Mark Baker's Nam. A group of actors led by Tom Bird have formed the Veterans Experience Theater Company in New York City...
...worrying top executives of sponsoring companies and network officials. Says Alfred Schneider of ABC, the network that the campaign finds most offensive: "If you lose advertisers, that is an indirect form of censorship. When there's a threat of a boycott, there is a chilling effect." Says Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "We believe we are facing a major struggle with these groups over the Bill of Rights." Replies John Hurt, a Tennessee minister who is leading the crusade: "We are not trying to censor anybody at all. We are not trying...