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...most dramatic controversy over native lands is one now raging over the ownership of 90% of the acreage of Alaska. Aided by some of the nation's best lawyers, including former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, 55,000 Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts contend that they hold title to the Alaskan land because the U.S. did not purchase it from Russia in 1867; it bought only the right to tax and govern the territory. When Alaska became a state in 1959, the state began to assert claim to the area. It has seized...
...witness was no less an expert than former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who closely observed the security arrangements for the convention and tried to moderate the tactics of both radicals and police. Defense Attorney William Kunstler had hoped that Clark's recollections would shed light on whether the riots were incited by the seven or by the tactics used to contain them. Judge Hoffman has made little secret of his opinion that police behavior is outside the scope of the present trial...
...campaign for the presidency, Richard Nixon touched a responsive chord when he promised voters an all-out war to make the nation's streets safe again. He also found a convenient target in the incumbent Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, who Nixon implied was to blame for much of the soaring crime rate. "If we are to restore respect for law in this country," Candidate Nixon told cheering Republicans in 1968, "there is one place we are going to begin. We are going to have a new Attorney General...
Bailing Out. Ramsey Clark accepted the apology as part of politics, but he does not accept continuing law-and-order rhetoric now that Nixon and Mitchell are in office. He believes that loose promises delude people into thinking something is being done about crime while the real troubles, such as unemployment, housing and education, are ignored. "Law enforcement can only deal with the symptoms of crime," Clark says. "It's like, bailing out the basement without turning off the water...
...leading religious leaders of Britain, the Catholics' John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster and the Anglicans' Archbishop Ramsey of Canterbury, are deeply opposed on the issue of canonization. Cardinal Heenan sees it as a badly needed restorative "to recall the Catholic Church in Britain to a sense of discipline and allegiance to the Pope." Archbishop Ramsey is worried that it will rekindle religious antagonism. "I am increasingly convinced that the canonization would be harmful to the ecumenical cause in England and that it would encourage the emotions which militate against it," he said. He finds a "siege mentality" among...