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...conciliatory moves that he hoped might gain release of the hostages. While insisting that he could not agree to amnesty for any criminal acts committed by the convicts, he signed a pledge that prison officials would take no administrative action against the rebels for their revolt and would not punish them physically (which is against state law anyway). He also supplied Attorney Schwartz with transportation to Manchester, Vt., where Federal Judge John T. Curtin put the prohibition against reprisals into the form of a highly unusual court injunction. The brief for the injunction was drafted by a prisoner who provided...
...conspiracy"-but not as a defendant in the New Haven trial, where a murder was involved. Or the Berrigan brothers, whose destruction of draft cards was a symbolic action directly intended to change the political course of the U.S. Undeniably the U.S. can and does manipulate the law to punish political dissenters. Yet unlike the ideological prisoners of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, America's antiEstablishmentarians have been able to use the legal system to defend themselves, often with success. Dr. Spock's conviction for conspiring to counsel young men in draft evasion was reversed. The Black Panthers...
...denies it publicly, Connally has been heard to say in private that "the U.S. can afford to be tough with Latin Americans because we have no friends left there." Apparently acting in a similar spirit, Congress allowed the coffee support agreement to lapse. The move was meant to punish Brazil for insisting on a 200-mile sea sovereignty, but it could hurt every coffee-producing nation in the world...
...University is currently preparing to punish certain students, faculty members, and other employees who prevented representatives of the Thai and Saigon governments and the White House, and a Brande's war-"researcher," from defending, before a Harvard audience, for the benefit of government cameras, the conduct of the Southeast Asian war. Those who disrupted the meeting acted on the view, which the presence of the USIA cameras in Sanders Theatre vindicated, that the meeting was to be used by the government for propaganda purposes in attempting to maintain an atmosphere here and abroad in which it can continue to prosecute...
...mail and cables censored in Egypt. But there have been some notable relaxations. The secret police are far less in evidence now. Following record crops last year, consumer goods are more readily available and some food prices have been forced down. The cruel sequestration laws that Nasser invoked to punish the middle class for opposing him have been eased, and many Egyptians are reclaiming seized property. Faced by a shortage of efficient managers, Sadat is seeking to create a class of executives and to give them a sense of belonging...