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...John Gunther Dean, 49, has lost 21 lbs. in the past year. He is the battle-fatigued, frustrated U.S. ambassador in Phnom-Penh who during that period has tried to shore up the Lon Nol government in the hope of eventually achieving what he helped bring about as U.S. chargé in Laos 18 months ago: a coalition between the opposing parties that would end the fighting. While he claims not to be emotionally involved in the situation, he clearly is. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan, he pleaded his increasingly forlorn case for continued...
...been at any time since he overthrew Sihanouk in 1970. Regardless of whether he receives more emergency U.S. aid, there is little he can do except try to hold out long enough to work out some sort of settlement with his enemies. "Time is running out," U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean fairly shouts to Western newsmen in Phnom-Penh these days, referring to prospects for U.S. aid. It is also running out for Phnom-Penh...
...Surprising casualness" (Raoul Berger of Harvard). "Dangerous nonsense" (Gerald Gunther of Stanford). "Disturbingly cavalier" (Paul J. Mishkin of Berkeley...
...question of why it had the power to decide the case. Chief Justice Warren Burger twice cited the 1803 observation of Chief Justice John Marshall that "it is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is." But Stanford's Gunther argued that the use of the Marshall dictum was misleadingly broad; every constitutional issue, he said, is not automatically reviewable by the court. One example: impeachment. Chicago's Kurland put the point neatly when he noted that the opinion "says no more than 'the President cannot assert that...
Mishkin and Gunther both felt that the court found itself in such compromising difficulties because of its willingness, even eagerness, to accept responsibility for solving major national problems-an expectation that the public increasingly shares. Urging a "diminished appetite for the judicial deus ex machina," Gunther pointed out that while the court's quick action in the tapes case soon brought down the President, it also short-circuited the impeachment process that was bringing needed new strength and admiration to the Legislative Branch. "The court's stepping in meant a self-fulfillment of the prophecy that Congress would...