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...Moot but Significant. The court established its power of judicial review in 1960 in its very first case. Gerard Lawless, a suspected Irish Republican Army terrorist, whom Ireland locked up for three months without a hearing under "emergency" laws, had questioned the legality of his imprisonment. The court upheld Defendant Ireland's action as justified under the circumstances; in so doing, it also asserted its then disputed right to interpret the convention and pass upon the conduct of subscribing nations...
...supplying vast amounts of food to Caamano's rebel zone-and could cut off those supplies if the rebels persist in refusing to yield their stronghold. Yet how long any settlement or provisional government will last is a moot point. After 31 years of savage Trujillo dictatorship and subsequent vacuum, the hatreds of the Dominican Republic run deep, and there are thousands of people on both sides who are just aching to have at each other. Added to that is the Castroite 14th-of-June group, which controls almost 2,000 of the 7,000 armed rebels...
Also last week, 30 Strategic Air Command B-52 bombers took off from Guam, streaked 5,000 miles to rain 400 tons of high explosives upon a tiny strip of Viet Cong-held jungle. That sortie may have moot consequences (see THE WORLD), but day after day, other U.S. aircraft continued to plaster Communist targets both north and south of the 17th Parallel...
District Court held Lament's case to be moot. In San Francisco last fall, how ever, a Danish journalist named Leif Heilberg won his case hands down in the same kind of court when he sued for unimpeded delivery of a Chinese Communist magazine printed in Esperanto...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Mardon's conviction with a brief order explaining that all such sit-in cases have been rendered moot by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "We are glad Miss Walker's long ordeal is over," rejoiced the Atlanta Constitution in an editorial slap at Segregationist Judge Pye. "We only wish she had not had to go to Washington to get justice...