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Ethics in Government Act. The act, which included provision for special prosecutors, was created to prevent another Watergate cover-up by a politically tainted Justice Department. It led to long, sensationalized and fruitless investigations of alleged cocaine use by two of Carter's White House aides, Hamilton Jordan and...
These memories of the American soul laid bare came back three weeks ago when a House judiciary subcommittee opened debate on extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A key provision of the law will expire in August 1982 and many of the nation's minority leaders were on...
I was disgusted by the New Right's latest tactic: a full-page Crimson advertisement by the National Defeat Legal Services Committee (May 8). I searched in vain for any facts in their propaganda. The legal services program, administered by the Legal Services Corporation, handled 1.5 million legal matters in...
THIS DICHOTOMY could form the book's badly-needed central theme but Dickson unfortunately bumbles. Some of his anecdotes are telling and funny: Fiedler's annual conversation with the New England Provision Company before his end-of-season bash always went: "Hello Sam? Fiedler, here. It's time for that...
The most important provision of the Voting Rights Act, and the one subject to the toughest challenge, is the requirement that localities with a history of discrimination submit any election law change to the Justice Department for clearance to ensure that it is not discriminatory. This chapter of the 1965...