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...analysis will be entirely impartial," said Lord Pearce, the retired British jurist, when the 20-member Pearce Commission ended its eight-week fact-finding mission in Rhodesia in March. The commission's task was to determine whether or not Rhodesians favored an agreement worked out by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home to end the seven-year-old dispute over independence. The agreement called for British recognition of Smith's white-supremacist government and a snail's-pace apportionment of political power to Rhodesia's 5,000,000 blacks...
...someone once observed, but masters seldom know their servants. The thesis has been overwhelmingly proved during the past six weeks in Rhodesia, where the white man is customarily called "boss" and the black man "boy." Since early January, a commission of British investigators headed by Lord Pearce, a noted jurist, has been canvassing the country to test the acceptability of Britain's proposed agreement with Prime Minister Ian Smith's white regime. The agreement would give the blacks, who outnumber the whites 22 to 1, a faint hope of coming to power in Rhodesia...
...stave off that calamity, the government had appointed a special commission, headed by noted Jurist Lord Wilberforce, to adjudicate the miners' demands. Its recommendation: an 11% to 24% raise, bringing the miners' wages up to a range of $59.80 to $89.70 per week. Union leaders voted first to reject the offer. But later, after a midnight bargaining session at 10 Downing Street, the union leaders agreed to submit the proposal directly to their members...
American Report. One argument Snezhnevsky was able to use privately was a report by a group of American psychiatrists, mental health officials and one eminent jurist, Washington Judge David Bazelon. They had toured Soviet mental hospitals in 1967 without perceiving any political abuse of psychiatric methods. Writing in the current New York Review of Books, Gadfly Journalist I.F. Stone details some of the evidence that both the World Psychiatric Association and the touring American doctors overlooked...
...with a Southern conservative that Nixon embarked on two of the nastiest fights of his presidency. Both South Carolina's Clement Haynsworth and Florida's G. Harrold Carswell were rejected by the Senate. The twin defeats infuriated Nixon, but he finally turned to Harry Blackmun, a diligent, uncontroversial Minnesota jurist who was quickly confirmed...