Word: lawlessness
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Cambridge Mayor Walter I Sullivan showed reporters at last night's city council meeting a telephone message from Joseph Lawless of the GSA. Stating that the GSA, is postponing any further projects at the Environmental practice Act of including the public bearing for February...
...history the way we did." Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote this week's Watergate article, has turned out 21 cover stories on the conspiracy. Said he: "This story has been both arduous and satisfying for a journalist. But it yields no joy. High officials who used lawless means to manipulate the public they were supposed to serve have been stopped. But it was too close a call...
...Supreme Court in 1969 ruled that it was "blatantly lawless" for draft boards to declare a man "delinquent" (and move him to the top of the list) for failure to comply with a Selective Service regulation. Men treated in that manner may also have a case...
Last Friday writer Joseph Heller was in town for the Boston Globe Annual Book Fair, and agreed to an interview with Crimson editors Seth Kupferberg and Greg Lawless. Heller came to The Crimson that afternoon with his wife, and they were both relaxed and very friendly. The soft-voiced author of Catch-22 and the just-released Something Happened was so responsive that on several occasions he began to talk before a question had been asked. Here follow some excerpts from the discussion...
...Challenge. The harshness of the penalties handed down last week was underlined by the highhandedness of the proceedings. Clark, in hearings before a subcommittee of the House Foreign Relations Committee, labeled the trials "lawless charades." The prisoners were tried under martial rule, which is normally reserved for offenses committed during a "state of war," though nearly all of the alleged acts took place before the overthrow of the Allende government. A lawyer who dared question whether his client had been tortured was banned from the trial. At no time were defense attorneys permitted to challenge either the jurisdiction...