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...stereotype of a cop. "I don't buy the Black Panthers," he says, "but at the same time, I feel that if the police spent more time denouncing racism, they would be a lot more effective." It was Kimble who supervised the extraordinarily lenient security forces at Woodstock last year. He even writes verse: "In the silence of the dawn / When attention of the world is gone, / I drop my shield so tears can speak. / Pardon me for being weak...
...convicted in crimes against whites than are whites in crimes against blacks. In the South, despite the fact that more than half of all convicted rapists are white, 87% of those executed for rape between 1930 and 1963 were black. Southern white juries also tend to be lenient toward black crimes against blacks. During an eleven-year period in North Carolina, for example, 26.6% of all blacks accused of killing whites were executed. Of the blacks convicted of murdering blacks, only 4% were executed...
...states, led by Colorado in 1967, require that each abortion must be approved by two or more disinterested physicians. All specify some medical need, such as the mother's physical or mental health, or a likelihood that the baby will be defective. Britain is somewhat more lenient than these states, but still stipulates pre-operation approval by more than one doctor. The District of Columbia is now in a legal limbo, since Federal Judge Gerhard A. Gesell declared the restrictive District code unconstitutional because it was too vague. Gesell's ruling is subject to reversal on appeal. Meanwhile...
...proposal-drafted by four students calling themselves the Committee for Administrative Changes-also suggests a lottery for the selection of students to the prestigious Harvard Law Review and a more lenient standard for graduation with honors...
...Because present draft laws make severing a procedure often less lenient than that which might be meted out by a Cambridge court, and because Harvard's in loco parentis role is under fire on many fronts, some members of the Ad Board favor turning shoplifters over to civil authorities. Others say that most shoplifters are students in need of help who should not be made subject to a possible criminal record...