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There is a further mystery as well. It would scarcely have been in character for Dulles to proceed in such a delicate, potentially notorious enterprise without Eisenhower's sanction or at least the authorization of the National Security Council. But there is no record of such authority...
...EIGER SANCTION, by contrast, is straightforward stuff, featuring Clint Eastwood pulling some derring-do on the side of one of Switzerland's highest mountains...
...lesser charge of refusing to testify. Then Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. gave him a one-month suspended sentence because his offense "reflects a heart too loyal" to the President. Next the bar in his home state of Arizona voted merely to censure him, the mildest possible sanction. And a panel of three Washington, D.C., federal judges found no grounds for suspending him from practice in their courts. Said one Washington lawyer: "The legal profession in general had decided to give Kleindienst a 'pass...
...while understanding how precarious an effort it is to avoid sanctimoniousness and racism. Americans should reject the view that these 130,000 refugees form a monolithic bloc of people each with an equal right to political asylum. Some should be denied the security and moral sanction of asylum--secret police who staffed the South Vietnamese torture establishment, guarded the tiger cages and carried out the Phoenix program of assassinations. America has no responsibility to provide a safe haven for these people, and we are in no position ourselves to undertake to rehabilitate them...
...civilized" nations that have abandoned executions and the fact that the penalty in the U.S. falls disproportionately on blacks and other socially rejected groups, Legal Defense Fund lawyers contend that the death penalty has become barbarous. North Carolina replies that since 31 states have moved to retain the capital sanction since the 1972 decision, the court cannot substitute its judgment of what is barbaric...