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Neier, who is not a lawyer, was picked to lead the A.C.L.U. in 1970, following a six-year stint as head of the New York affiliate. By then, the 55-year-old civil liberties group had already begun to move away from its strictly legal approach. In the past, the A.C.L.U. had generally entered a civil liberties case by filing a brief as amicus curiae (friend of the court). In 1968 the organization turned to more direct action; its attorneys served as defense lawyers in the Spock conspiracy trial. In the face of internal disagreement, A.C.L.U. activists convinced colleagues that...
...George D. Aiken, 82, Vermont Republican and dean of the Senate, where he served for 34 years: "Again, I wish to urge a constitutional amendment ... that would limit the President to a single six-year term. I would also recommend an amendment that would prohibit any member of Congress from becoming a candidate for President or Vice President until he has been out of the legislative body for at least two years. If we could do this, we would find that both the President and the members of Congress could concentrate on doing the work for which they were elected...
...After a six-year absence from dingy Briggs Cage, the Crimson thinclads will return there this evening to tangle with Boston University in the season opener...
...GOYA'S CAPRICHOS expressed the vacuity of life without reason, his Desastres de la Guerra brought out the impossibility of life without reason. The most piercing and disturbing part of the MFA's exhibition is the room devoted to the Desastres. Built on Goya's own experience during the six-year war between Spain and Napoleon's France, the Desastres show the carnage, the stench--the actuality of war. Goya shows no heroes and no villains. No supernatural forces are at work here--the agony and suffering are inflicted by people onto other people, and no one is spared...
...Africa's Sahel, the rains last June broke a six-year drought, but the area's 25 million inhabitants are not yet out of danger. Ten million people still suffer from malnutrition and will need outside aid for at least two years. "Of the estimated 4 million refugees in grim, barren camps," reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, "many are young children, their bodies already so malnourished that they are easy prey to diseases ranging from measles to meningitis to pneumonia. Often they find it too difficult to eat or drink with out assistance." At least 3 million nomads...