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...presentation of Sirhan's defense, Russell E. Parsons will be preparing witnesses and planning appeals, which are his specialty. His most famous was in the 1955 case of People v. Cahan, which involved a bookmaker whose Hollywood apartment was bugged by police. Parsons claimed that law-enforcement agencies had thus electronically crossed Cahan's threshold. His argument successfully established the California law that evidence illegally obtained is inadmissible in a criminal case...
Oldest member of the Sirhan defense team, at 73, Parsons won his law degree at the University of Southern California. In 1935, he defended a murderer named "Rattlesnake" James, who tried to kill his wife by holding her foot in a box full of rattlesnakes. To play it safe, James dispatched her by drowning. Parsons managed to keep his client alive for seven years after conviction in a day when appeals were hard to come by. As for his defense of Sirhan: "It won't be the first time I've defended someone free," he says. "There...
Wasps dominate the governing bodies of the richest universities in a ratio of four to one. More than four-fifths of the directors of the largest foundations are Wasps; of the 37 officers and directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, only one is non-Wasp. Under pressure of law and of the meritocratic "cult of performance," Wall Street law firms and brokerage houses are making room for more Jews and Catholics, but they are still overwhelmingly Wasp-controlled...
...volatile choice of words encourages racist reactions in his listeners. Instead, he argues, "I am a safety valve." Powell has even conceded that immigrants are "no more malevolent or more prone to wrongdoing" than white Britons. His argument is merely that Britain has enough to do in keeping law and order among its own. It has neither the skill nor resources to cope with the immigrants, whose case, in Powell's words, is "totally different." The only way to cope with their problems, he says, is to make them go home "voluntarily...
Eleven Languages. Despite its excesses, Powell's campaign does make one legitimate point. Today's overcrowded, economically laggard Britain can no longer afford to make good on the old colonial "myth that we wrote into law" and grant entrance to every Commonwealth emigrant who seeks to settle there. It is a realization that both major British parties share; in fact, under a 1962 law, immigration is already severely limited. It is restricted mainly to persons whose relatives already reside in Britain and to those who have received official work permits, which are issued at the rate of about...