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...Protopopov and Belousova defection had been the cause of particular consternation in the Soviet Union, where the husband-and-wife couple were among the country's most honored athletes. They had vanished at the end of a four-week exhibition tour of West Germany and Switzerland. When it was reported that they had requested political asylum in Switzerland, shock waves struck Moscow. Said a stunned and baffled Soviet sports official: "For sports personalities of their caliber, there are no problems. They had everything they wanted here...
...pair skating. They also appeared to exemplify political orthodoxy. Unlike Bolshoi Ballet Defectors Alexander Godunov and Leonid and Valentina Kozlov, the Protopopovs were Communist Party members. They were showered with official Soviet honors, including the Lenin Prize and the prestigious title Honored Master of Sport of the Soviet Union. Though touring Soviet athletes and performing artists are always scrutinized for any sign of a desire to defect, the widely traveled Protopopovs aroused no suspicions when they left the Soviet Union for the last time...
Paul Halvonik, who had a respected record as an American Civil Liberties Union counsel before his judicial appointment, is a longtime friend and former aide to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., who named him to the bench in 1978. Previously he had been California's first state public defender and a state deputy attorney general. Fellow jurists who know his work have nothing but praise for him. Says San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harry W. Low, until recently president of the California Judges' Association: "He's got an excellent legal mind and a good sense...
...long-drawn, harrowing investigation involving charges that it allowed political considerations to influence the timing of important decisions. Moreover, the Oakland scandal inevitably raised questions about the quality of the Governor's judicial appointments. One Brown nominee for an appellate court vacancy had to withdraw after the Sacramento Union revealed that he had written a string of rubber checks and had several times been accused of malpractice. Last week Brown appointed an avowed homosexual to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, exposing the Governor, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, to further criticism. And for all his impressive legal credentials...
...seems to me-profoundly immoral and destructive of our efforts to build a new and ultimately more peaceful pattern of international relations. We could not revitalize the Atlantic Alliance if its governments were assailed by doubt about American staying power. We would not be able to move the Soviet Union toward the imperative of mutual restraint against the background...