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...defendants are being tried on charges stemming from the slaying of Alex Rackley, a fellow Panther and alleged police informer. Like many defense lawyers, Seale's attorney, Charles Garry, sees his client as a victim. He insists that a black militant cannot obtain a panel of impartial jurors from voter rolls, which are stocked largely with white, middle-class citizens. None of them, he claims, "could possibly judge an enemy of the Establishment...
...city's plea of poverty, the court said: "The deplorable financial conditions in Philadelphia must yield to the constitutional mandate that the judiciary shall be free and independent and able to provide an efficient and effective system of justice. The court does not have unlimited power to obtain from the city whatever sums it would like. Its wants and needs must be proved by it to be 'reasonably necessary,' and this is always subject to court review...
Boston Couneilman Thomas Atkins and other politicians are working behind the scenes to obtain a permit acceptable to the two groups. GBPAC and PCPJ will continue negotiating with the Traffic Commission today...
...report basically assumes that "A total merger of Radcliffe College into Harvard University is not desirable at this time." What it achieves is a masterpiece of how to have your cake and eat it too-Harvard will obtain co-education without changing its admissions policies, while Radcliffe will relinquish financial responsibility for housing and administration, without giving up its endowment...
This latter bane is characterized by the lack of personal resources such as money in the bank and the power to obtain what one needs (better schooling for the children, a voice in government, good medical care, whatever). In other words, having to ask for the basics to live is degrading; it can become a consuming humiliation...