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...Bernhard Goetz. At every opportunity, the two lawyers attempt to put the justice system itself on trial. Says Columbia University Law Professor Gerard E. Lynch: "Mason, whom I know, and Maddox, from what I've read, see the judicial system as fundamentally unjust and racist, and that's the key to their strategy and tactics." Maddox said much the same thing to supporters last week: "Every decision we made in the Howard Beach case and the Tawana Brawley case is based on how it will affect black people...
...Five" have voted with Republicans to pass bills over Brown's protest, providing capital punishment for child murderers, AIDS tests for prostitutes and wiretaps for suspected drug dealers. The gang considers Brown too autocratic and too liberal, but has been unable to unseat him because he maintains support from key Republicans...
...tons of liquid chemical waste are dumped annually from West German ships into the sea. In Bonn Environment Minister Klaus Topfer last week refused to link man-made pollutants directly to the seal deaths, but he did admit to a "very serious suspicion" that industrial wastes may have played key roles. Topfer has promised to end offshore dumping by the end of 1989. Environmentalists are calling for an immediate...
Roemer has had his own moments of embarrassment -- as when he was caught appointing the son of a key state senator custodian of notarial records in New Orleans, a part-time sinecure that paid its last beneficiary $105,000. Well, said the Governor when asked about this venture in old-fashioned patronage, he would move to do away with that cushy job. Ed Hardin, president of Louisiana's Common Cause, feels Roemer is much too autocratic and tends to act without enough research. Says Hardin: "He's assembled power that makes Huey Long look like a piker...
This might appear to be a surpassingly arcane issue. Yet last week, while Reagan and Gorbachev were discussing global and philosophical matters, some of their key aides were locked in a passionate dispute over weapons that are almost too small, too slow and too low flying even to be considered strategic...