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...distaff dissent is a controversial marriage-reform bill proposed by the Tanzanian government. Among the East African country's 12.5 million people, Christian monogamy has traditionally existed side by side with Moslem and pagan polygamy. The situation is fraught with inconsistencies and injustices. As Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, explains: "We have always accepted that Moslems can have four wives, and tribalists can have ten or 20. But if I should take a second wife, I could be prosecuted. Yet the police constable who arrested me might be a polygamist. The prosecutor might...
Weinglass spoke for two hours on the disparities of the Chicago 7 trial, and cited individual contempt charges made against the defendants and the lawyers by Judge Julius Hoffman. Weinglass said. however, that contempt charges probably would be dropped in the appeal case...
...already surmised as much from press reports, this book makes it perfectly clear that the Conspiracy trial was not a simple criminal prosecution. As Dwight MacDonald points out in his superb introduction to Tales, the trial was a kulturkampf -a cultural war between the straightlaced propriety of Julius Hoffman and the uninhibited uproar of Abbie...
...Seale had been able to defend himself, if Clark were allowed to testify, if the defendants had been given a fair chance, maybe the outcome would have been different. Maybe not. Either way, the answer will not come from Julius Hoffman's courtroom...
Equally theatrical, of course, was the media's depiction of the American judicial system in the person of Judge Julius Hoffman. By focusing on Hoffman's personality as the cause of the defendants' grossly unjust treatment, it tended by implication to minimize the fundamental injustices of American courts. What would otherwise have appeared to be a matter of straightforward political repression suddenly became the last-gasp salvation of an expiring 74-year...