Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DANIEL (to the judge): The prosecutor ended his summation by suggesting that the verdict will be supported by public opinion. I, too, have something to say about public opinion. I do not doubt that public opinion will support this verdict as it would approve any other verdict. The defendants will be depicted as social parasites and outcasts and people of different ideologies...
...prosecutor reversed the sense of Article 125 of the Constitution [which guarantees freedom of speech and assembly and other civil rights so long as they serve the interests of the working people]. He said that liberties are to be enjoyed only if they work in the interests of the state. But it is in the interests of socialism and of the workers that people are given these rights...
...Prosecutor interrupts to complain that this argument is not relevant...
LITVINOV: This is relevant. Who is to judge what is in the interest of socialism and what is not? Is it perhaps the prosecutor, who spoke with admiration, almost with tenderness, of those who beat us up and insulted us? This is what I find ominous. Evidently it is such people who are supposed to know what is socialism and what is counterrevolution. This is what I find terrible, and that is why I went to Red Square. That is what I have fought against and what I shall continue by all lawful methods known to me to fight against...
...demands; for the first time he insisted that the whole Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment in community control be considered a failure and dissolved. He was also angered at Lindsay for appointing outspoken advocates of decentralization to the school board. Two of them, John Doar, former federal civil rights prosecutor, and the Rev Milton A. Galamison, a Negro who has led school boycotts, were elected president and vice president of the board...