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...prominent Democrats, however, quickly expressed their opposition to efforts to grant Nixon immunity from prosecution. Such proposals, said former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who is running for the Senate in New York, are "shockingly contemptuous of the integrity of the law." Georgia State Representative Julian Bond agreed. "Why should he be granted anything that he wouldn't grant somebody else, like the boys in Canada?" Bond asked. "The prisons of Georgia are full of people who stole $5 or $10, and this man tried to steal the Constitution of the United States...
...trials dragged on for 3½ months with the pretense of being fair and objective proceedings. Foreign observers, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, were allowed into the courtroom, and all 65 defendants were permitted to have counsel. So anxious -at least outwardly-was Chile's eleven-month-old junta to demonstrate its system of justice that there was speculation that Supreme Head of State Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, an army general, would let the political prisoners off with relatively light sentences. Not so. Last week four of the men were condemned to death, two to life imprisonment...
...violence, but it also has more than its share of intelligence. The most amazing thing about the movie is how much Al Pacino (who's very good in the title role) looks like the real Frank Serpico. Serpico flew in from Switzerland a few months ago to endorse Ramsey Clark's Senate bid in New York and had people wondering why The New York Times was running Pacino's picture on the front page. Eddie Coyle, about the life of lower-echelon thugs in Boston, stars Robert Mitchum and is surprisingly well done...
...Ramsey receives both support and strong criticism in the same issue of the Hastings Center Studies from Dr. Leon Kass, a physician and molecular biologist who works in biomedical ethics. Kass takes issue with Ramsey's view of death as an "indignity," insisting instead that "to live is to be mortal." Jewish, if not Christian teaching has generally held that view, Kass says; evolutionary biology confirms and strengthens...
...Kass, like Ramsey, is worried about euthanasia sloganeering that might mask "our prejudices against the old and 'useless' and, in some cases, our simply crass and selfish interests." Like Ramsey, he questions the slogan's implication that "dignity will reign if only we can push back officious doctors, machinery and hospital administrators." Indeed, reflects Kass, "a death with dignity may turn out to be something rare and uncommon, like a life with dignity...