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...foreign policy is the 19-year-old Connally Reservation. Offered in Congress by Texas' late Democratic Senator Tom Connally, that legalism reserves for the U.S. the right to refuse jurisdiction of the World Court in cases involving U.S. interests. Supporters of the reservation argue that it is a safeguard of U.S. sovereignty. But opponents, including many international jurists, contend that it emasculates the World Court by depriving it of real judicial power. The American Bar Association has condemned the reservation from the beginning. Yet, so controversial is the question that in 1960 the A.B.A. reaffirmed its opposition only...
Gripes about judges may come to Frankel from any private citizen, though meaningful complaints generally come from other judges, lawyers and grand juries. To safeguard the traditional independence of the judiciary, Frankel focuses only on alleged disability and misconduct-for example, senility, public alcoholism or persistent discourtesy. The commission has the power to subpoena medical records, order medical examinations. Once the commission is convinced that a complaint has merit, Secretary Frankel simply sends the judge a registered letter outlining the charges and adds a polite request: "Please comment...
...telegram read in part: "We who support you feel that the promise of the Great Society will be illusory if you do not exercise your . . . right to safeguard the basic human and constitutional rights of the people. Surely the time for . . . effective executive action has now come...
Secondly, whereas the U.S. Federal Government is failing to safeguard the civil rights of more than 20 million American Negroes and Indians, in this free republic, how can the same government pretend to safeguard the civil liberties of more than 50 million Africans and Asians? The protection that the U.S. is trying to extend to Africans and Southeast Asians is badly needed in the southern states of the U.S. and in the Indian reservations. Several defenseless Negroes and whites that were determined to sow the seeds of democracy in the U.S. first, have been tormented, crippled, and shot dead...
...military foreign policy makers and the C.I.A. agents have grossly abused such gifts and our gratitude. Like other liberty loving human beings, we cannot trade our liberty and blood for favors and goodies. Hard feelings can be avoided as long as people are left to determine, pursue, and safeguard their own destiny. The U.S. should not throw her weight around, but should give Africa a chance to solve her own problems. Aggrey Aworl '65 President, East African Students' Organization in the Americas