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...typical all-white jury breeds injustice in three ways: 1) Negroes committing crimes against Negroes are likely to be let off too easily; 2) Negroes committing crimes against whites receive unduly harsh penalties; 3) whites committing crimes against Negroes either get off scot free or receive token sentences. Into the last category falls the breakneck acquittal last September in Hayneville, Ala., of Thomas Coleman, accused of killing an Episcopal seminarian and wounding a Catholic priest, both civil rights workers. It was at least slightly embarrassing to the state that Coleman, one of the local white courthouse-hangers...
Last month the U.S. Court of Military Appeals unanimously threw out the conviction. "Military discipline, harsh as it may seem, is essential to the efficient functioning of our armed forces," conceded Judge Homer Ferguson. "But when it is perverted into an excuse for retaliating against a soldier for doing only that which Congress has expressly said it wishes him to be free to do, this court would be remiss if it did not condemn the effort to persecute him." Schmidt's announcement that he would write the papers "to expose to public view the unlawful and unjust measures which...
...Harsh Prescription. Hoping to gain ground in the great European prosperity race, Austria's new conservative-led coalition government is pressing hard for some kind of alliance with the Common Market. Though barred from full membership by its peace treaty with Russia, Austria believes that even "associate" status in the EEC would mean tariffs so low that competition would force its sluggish home industries to become more efficient. Of course, some Austrian firms would perish in the process. "They'd die anyway eventually," shrugs Austrian EEC Envoy Eugen Buresch. As harsh as that prescription sounds, Austria seems willing...
That seemed to be the Ky government's solution last week for the demonstrations triggered by the firing of I Corps General Nguyen Chanh Thi last month. A harsh crackdown on the demonstrators-mostly students-would only play into the hands of the waiting Buddhists, who first rose to power when the Saigon government invaded their pagodas three years ago. Moreover, the anti-Ky groups had only the vaguest of aims-and the mildest of manners...
Fuller shows the minds of the insane by cutting frequently to strange romantic sequences composed of footage from travelogues and newsreels. Otherwise, he eliminates any traces of romanticism: a striptease scene, filmed in harsh style completely detached from sexuality, is simply cold and ugly. The shock-treatment scene consists of a rapid montage of earlier shots and sounds superimposed attack of the nymphomaniacs, and the hero's hallucination of being struck by lightning in a rain-filled hospital corridor are among the most brilliantly executed scenes of the American film in this decade...