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...through with the trials, Rothblatt will probably demand a change of venue to Washington or Hawaii. He claims that the men cannot get a fair trial in the war zone. Even if the Green Berets lose at first, the defense lawyers are likely to take full advantage of a lenient appeal procedure. After automatic review by the convening authority and an Army court of review, they can take the case to the Court of Military Appeals and then try to shift it to the federal courts. The Army, which likes to prosecute its law violators in private, is not likely...
...Revere Life Insurance Co. Nuveen had to resign its memberships in both the New York and American Stock Exchanges, which prohibit member firms from borrowing more than 25% of their capital from the outside. Though Nuveen plans to continue its brokerage activity through the Midwest Exchange, which has more lenient rules, the firm has laid off some 10% of its 450 employees. Meanwhile, McDonnell & Co., beset by financial and operating problems, recently sold one of its three Big Board seats (for $375,000) and laid off 70 employees, including about half of its research staff. To increase its capital...
While those who remember the Nixon of the 1950's might be surprised at this relatively lenient attitude, it does fit well with the image with his Administration is trying to project--one stressing orderliness and expertise in administration, as well as moderation in all things. In addition, Nixon almost surely recognizes that universities--unlike Southern school districts--do provide services which are immediately useful to the Federal government. Besides hurting education in general and students in particular, cutting off Federal aid to universities would also lessen the flow of expertise from academia to government...
...living standards of many poor people, particularly in the South, and reduce the gap between generous and ungenerous states. The disparity, already serious, became crucial last week when the Supreme Court rejected as unconstitutional state residency requirements for welfare. Unless the Federal Government does something?and soon?the more lenient states may attract many more welfare applicants in search of higher benefits, compounding the troubles in the ghettos and adding to the cities' already intolerable financial burdens...
...crime trials have been going on in West Germany since 1945. In the immediate postwar period, Allied tribunals sentenced the surviving Nazi leaders to death or long prison terms. Then the responsibility for the trials passed to West German courts, which have sometimes handed down lenient jail sentences that have outraged foreign opinion. By 1968, 6,192 war criminals had been convicted in West Germany. Another 16,000 to 18,000 alleged war criminals either await trial or are under investigation. Many might have escaped prosecution altogether if the statute of limitations had been allowed to stand. In addition, there...