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...serving in prison be released. It will determine how much compensating service in jobs must be performed in each case. It will also have the task of reviewing the files of some 216,500 veterans who received less than honorable discharges, and upgrade those discharges if the rating seems unjust...
Shaw himself attributed the "unusual intensity of resentment" that greeted the play to what he defined as its moral--"not, as usual, that our social system is unjust to the poor, but that it is cruel to the rich." In a characteristically long-winded preface that includes sweeping pronouncements on, among other things, the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union, he extends a scornful pity to those who possess a new kind of riches "detached from work, from responsibility, from tradition, and from every sort of prescribed routine, even from the routine of going to the village church every Sunday...
...most controversial judge in New York, and the continuing storm over many of his decisions has catapulted him into a national prominence unique for a municipal judge. The furor centers on the issue of bail. Wright contends that the present system of administering bail in American courts is unjust to the poor, specifically to blacks and other minority groups. He has made himself a one man force for bail reform, by invariably setting low bail for defendants of limited financial means who are arraigned before him. In a few widely publicized cases, such defendants have either jumped bail or committed...
Mexico continues to be an island of stability, and not only in Latin America. Regard your own circumstances: in eleven years, one President assassinated, countless riots, assaults and kidnapings, a long and unjust war waged against the will of the people, the highest officials of the Executive Branch on trial, and political scandal as a way of life. The "island of stability" to which your article refers prevails throughout the Western Hemisphere...
...council added, Christians should seriously question whether they could participate in armed battle against liberation forces. The resolution reasoned that both "Catholic and Reformation theology" teach that Christians can only participate in a just war-and the requirements for a just war rule out fighting for "a basically unjust and discriminatory society." That, said the council, is a fair description of South Africa. The resolution noted that South Africa's Dutch-descended Afrikaners themselves cited British repression as the rationale for the Boer War against Britain and argued that "the same applies to the black people in their struggle...