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...unlikely a simple change in definitions will initiate any change in FBI motives and, of course, no one could pretend to know what importance or interpretation the FBI attaches to its agreement. Said Spartacist League General Counsel Rachel Wolkenstein, "we have no illusions that the government's secret police have stopped or will stop their harassment, infiltration or disruption of Marxist political organizations and other political opponents of the government." Nevertheless, Wolkenstein added, the "settlement strikes a modest but genuine blow against that deadly equation of opposition with conspiracy...
...agreeing to change its definition of the Spartacist League," Wolkenstein said, "the FBI conceded the central claim of our lawsuit--that Marxist political principles and advocacy cannot be equated with violence, terrorism or a criminal enterprise...
...latest successful legal challenge to the new McCarthyism has gained support at the Law School, inspiring an open forum presentation by Wolkenstein which will occur later in February. Sandra Ruffin, President of the Black Law Students Association, wrote in support of the victory and called it "a structured outrage" that should "serve as a signpost, a warning of the dangers to freedom which still threaten...
...must go to Simon, who was in perfect voice, with ne'er a hint of a rough-edged tone. His diction, in four languages, was always impeccably clear. I was particularly impressed by his singing of the medieval Sainte Marie, Alonso de Mudarra's Triste estaba, and Oswald v. Wolkenstein's Der May. The last is one of the oldest descriptive pieces, wherein the calls of many birds are imitated at great speed, in the manner of a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song...
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