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...people's lawyers had their origin in the labor movement and in pacifism. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the most venerable rights organization in the U.S., evolved from a group of lawyers who defended pacificsts during the First World War. After the War, ACLU turned its attention to the emergent labor unions, and then to the New Deal reformers. By the next world war, it moved towards the right. After the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-agression pact, ACLU banned Communists from its staff, thus splitting its ranks and spawning other groups...
...that a man with a dicebox might grant and deny paroles as fairly as most boards. If she has met in her travels an idealistic or even an effective penologist, she neglects to report the fact. "That 'prisons are a failure' is a cliche dating from the origin of prison," she writes, and briskly concludes that it is long past time for Americans to abolish their costly, cruel, and in fact morally corrupting penal communities. But when it comes to specific alternatives for dealing with criminals, she refers vaguely to "a radical change...
...What Ghana needs today is unity," he says, "no matter what one's origin or tribe." He has instructed his subchiefs to concentrate on local affairs. In return, Ghana's President, Colonel Ignatius Acheampong, has pledged to leave tribal affairs solely in the hands of the chiefs. Thus, when local student groups started to protest in June against a $2.5 million palace that Nana Opoku is now building in Kumasi, they were quickly told by Accra...
...Nobel Prize for helping to discover the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life, what does a scientist like Francis Crick do for an encore? He tackles something even bigger. With Leslie Orgel, of California's Salk Institute, Crick has now taken on the mystery of the origin of life. Writing in Icarus, a monthly devoted to studies of the solar system, the two scientists theorize that life on earth may have sprung from tiny organisms from a distant planet-sent here by spaceship as part of a deliberate act of seeding...
...letters he receives each day, 85% support the hearings in general and his performance in particular. Attorney John J. Wilson could not have done him a bigger favor than to call him a "little Jap." Since one-third of Hawaii's population is of Japanese origin, the state was indignant. There was even a boomlet for Inouye for President. A reader wrote the Honolulu Advertiser: "Inouye certainly has everything a President should have except a right...