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...Louis Zemel, a Connecticut ski-resort operator, wanted to go to Cuba in 1962 "to make me a better-informed citizen." The State Department refused to put the necessary endorsement on his passport. Last week, in a decision that surprised many libertarians, the Supreme Court sided with the State Department...
...Zemel vs. Rusk will be heard by a special three-judge federal court in Hartford this winter. Since the case involves a Constitutional right, an appeal from this court goes directly to the Supreme Court. The argument against the government involves three basic questions. First, does the Secretary of State have the statutory authority to limit the travel of an American citizen, and, if he does, is such an authority constitutional? Second, is there (as Secretary Rusk claims) an inherent executive power to control travel? And, third, does a legitimate state of national emergency now exist...
...Zemel vs. Rusk will also test the alleged "state of emergency" that is now in force. In 1950, President Truman declared a state of emergency in connection with the Korean War. In 1953, he reiterated the stand. Since then ten years have passed without renewal or recall of the executive order. Zemel will contend that if U.S. citizens are subjected to such conditions of extreme duress, the government certainly owes them detailed and up-to-date explanations of its policy...
Fifty-nine American students who visited Cuba ths summer are testing the travel ban in a manner tactically different from the approaches chosen by Worthy and Zemel. Early in 1962, Castro issued an invitation to the Natonal Student Association. Apparently he felt that a student visit would improve the Cuban image in the eyes of the American public. Although NSA declined the invitation, Castro did not withdraw it. Last fall, a group in New York calling themselves the Ad Hoc Student Committee for Travel to Cuba set about organizing a trip to the island. The Committee finally sent fifty-nine...
...traveling to Cuba and for "conspiring to effectuate such travel." By prosecuting only four of the people involved the Department of Justice is apparently attempting to establish judicial precedent for the treatment of future travel-ban abusers. The students' defense will take a line similar to the one that Zemel will use. But there is an additional issue involved here. While Zemel never left the United States and Worthy was not carrying a passport, the fifty-nine students were all armed with valid U.S. passports. Can the government hold that the sojourn of an American on Cuban soil invalidates...