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Criticism of the FBI for its failures in the Kennedy case, said Hoover, was "unjust and unfair." That was most curious, since Hoover himself ordered disciplinary action against three FBI agents, including James Hosty Jr., the Dallas agent who had been keeping an eye on Oswald for months, who was suspended for 30 days without pay and transferred to Kansas City...
...will toward other faiths and the modern world. Under discussion was the proposed declaration on antiSemitism, and the coffee bars inside St. Peter's were deserted as the 2,500 bishops huddled silently in the aula, listening while speaker after speaker denounced the text as inadequate, meaningless and unjust...
...Italy at least, Togliatti's aims were quickly taken up. Last week his successor, tough ex-Partisan Luigi Longo, 64, went on television to appeal to the Catholics of Italy. Said he: "We hold it unjust to consider religion merely as an instrument of the conservative classes." If Togliatti's will is properly probated, the Italian Communist Party could very well find a place in some future government...
Standing & Ripeness. Getting unjust laws repealed in the legislature is infinitely more desirable than "just" civil disobedience. But if political persuasion fails, how to change a law in the courts? Article III of the Constitution empowers the federal judiciary to hear "cases" and "controversies," and though the courts can reject many kinds of cases, they are unlikely to turn down any genuine conflicts involving practical consequences that demand constitutional interpretation...
...behind-the-scenes journalism, not a blow for human rights, and his uniquely personal experience does little but reaffirm the existence of bigotry. Magnified on the screen, it suggests unintentionally that the public and private indignities suffered by the black man appear somehow more cogent, vivid and unjust when a white man has to bear them...