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What conditions have fostered the radical transformation from the libertarian tradition of Aneurin Bevan to the hot-eyed radicalism of Benn and Scargill? Some believe that Britain's freewheeling, free-spending years under a succession of Labor governments raised illusory expectations for the young. Others think the party became devoid of serious ideas. "There was an ideological vacuum in the Labor Party," says Peter Shipley, a conservative expert on British revolutionaries. "Labor had come to a full stop. The extreme left claimed to have the answers and started to fill the vacuum." Says Alfred Sherman, director of Britain...
...Angeles' best and, in some cases, most restrictive social clubs, he has a wide range of friends. He was an early supporter of Los Angeles' mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat and a black. Says Smith's law partner Paul Ziffren, a Democrat active in civil libertarian causes: "Smith has a strong and pure sense of noblesse oblige." Smith's second wife Jean is also heavily engaged in civic affairs; the attorney has four grown children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. Smith is a fastidiously groomed, buttoned-down Establishment figure, but his establishment...
...points to unreclaimed strip mines and calls them "unavoidable consequences of progress." They'll have to follow an impulse that has always existed within the American Left--direct community efforts to create non-governmental institutions. There will be a spate of new schools and neighborhood patrols, and the libertarian movement, on the other side, will continue to pick up steam, as people realize that when government won't solve problems for everybody at once, small-scale community solutions are the only possibility...
...relationships with his law clerks were, as one put it, like those between master and slaves. He was named Father of the Year in 1950, but his offspring knew better: "Dad was scary," recalls Son William. Even in robes, Douglas had his failings. Simon says that the great civil libertarian was not truly a hero in the Rosenberg spy case because his last minute effort to delay their executions came only after his five votes not to hear their appeals. Sadly, even in one of the Justice's final acts - the chronicling of his life - the great storyteller...
Among third party candidates, Libertarian Ed Clark and Citizens Party standard-bearer Barry Commoner both showed up in the vote totals of many states...