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Because the law still regards Indian tribes as quasi-sovereign nations, state courts have no jurisdiction over reservations; federal courts try only major reservation crimes, such as murder. The vast majority of lesser crimes are left to 56 tribal courts manned by Indian judges, who are usually picked by tribal councils, but have little or no legal training. Tribal defendants cannot appeal to outside courts; they have even been consistently denied writs of habeas corpus. As a result, tribal judges have been free to ignore constitutional rights...
...returned, glowing, to party headquarters. Monarchically miffed, a Red colleague snapped: "That's the last time you go to the palace!" Papandreou, a longtime republican, called it all the work of a young and rash ruler who was attempting to step out of the role of a constitutional sovereign and assume absolute authority. Street demonstrators loudly proclaimed that the King was the tool of his constitutional adviser, Constantine Hoidas, 48, and German-born Queen Mother Frederika, long a popular target damned in placards as "the Hitlerina." But in fact Constantine seemed to be making the essential decisions himself, relying...
...discussion of the Bay of Pigs fiasco by Sorensen, Schlesinger and TIME [July 30], the moral issue is ignored. What right has the U.S. to overthrow the government of a sovereign state? We justify our military presence in Viet Nam on the principle that North Viet Nam has no right to interfere with the sovereignty of South Viet Nam. And yet we have ignored this principle in Guatemala, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. How can we ask the world to live by one standard of morality when we insist upon living...
...substance to the spirit of liberty and to mankind's sacred stir for justice. It now comes that the President has asked me to join in the greatest adventure of man's history-the effort to bring the rule of law to govern the relations between sovereign states. It is that or doom-and we all know it. I have accepted-as one simply must...
...Korea: after three years, one month and two days of fighting, the Reds signed an armistice reaffirming the 38th Parallel as the boundary dividing North and South Korea; today, despite an uneasy truce line guarded by 50,000 Americans and 550,000 South Korean troops, South Korea is a sovereign, non-Communist nation. Viet Nam: no conclusion is in sight, and Hanoi leaders are described by recent British Special Envoy Harold Davies as "intoxicated with their successes...