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Justice Douglas was not unaware of the problems that the ruling presented, but he said the dislocations are necessary: "We do not sit as an ombudsman to direct state courts how to manage their affairs, but only to make clear the federal constitutional requirement." Justices Powell and Rehnquist felt that the rule should be applied only when "fundamental fairness" requires a lawyer, as they agreed it did in the Argersinger case. But Douglas insisted that a lawyer was a "fundamental right, where an accused is deprived of liberty." Chief Justice Burger concurred with some hopeful words. Noting that the American...
...ship's having to turn back prematurely because shampooing sailors had depleted its limited fresh-water supply. More plausible was the danger that an aircraft mechanic might have his obligatory hair net sucked into a jet engine. Meanwhile, long-haired soldiers deluged West Germany's Wehrbeau/tragter (military ombudsman) with complaints that commanders were arbitrarily forcing them to shorten their hair or making them wear hair nets even on jobs where safety was not a factor...
Miller advocates that managers create a climate in which employees can feel free to criticize. One step might be to appoint a company ombudsman with power to act on employees' complaints and to start his own investigations. Another would be for a company's directors to extend protection against job loss or demotion to employees who come before the board with disclosures. Some consumer advocates have suggested that Congress legislate protection against reprisal for wage earners who report the unlawful acts of their company, or testify before a-court or Government agency...
Short Circuit. Under the old charter, the public service commission was dominated by the power companies it was supposed to regulate; the public got short-circuited. Now provision is made for an ombudsman, a consumer counsel who will represent the public in utility-rate cases. In the past, a single state board of education tried to run both the public schools and the six-unit university system; the new constitution creates separate boards and gives the regents full control-without political interference-over the universities. Montana also limped along with a tight constitutional limit on property taxes, which imposed great...
Drawing for Stars and Stripes, the Army's newspaper, Mauldin was telling it like it is long before that dreadful phrase was invented (see cut). Mauldin also became a kind of ombudsman for the G.I. in his war with officers and gentlemen. When the general who administered Naples, for example, started handing out four-day jail terms to war-weary troops for minor dress infractions, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-were there with a cartoon. "Them buttons was shot off when I took this town, sir," a bedraggled Willie tells a well-scrubbed rear-echelon lieutenant. In Mauldin...