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HARVARD Professor Alan Dershowitz has acridly detailed the so-called "stretch points" in American justice...
What the Trudean ministry needed in Canada-the "War Measures Act" suspending the Canadian Bill of Rights and allowing the government to round up 450 persons linked with the FLQ-the Nixon Administration can do without. According to Dershowitz, the criminal laws here are so flexible that the government requires almost no extra-constitutional emergency powers. In an astounding interview with Kleindienst, which Dershowitz has recorded in The Naton, our Deputy Attorney General made this remarkable point: "There is enough play at the joints of our existing criminal law-enough flexibility-so that if we really felt that...
...Dershowitz also said the Governance Committee has made no attempt "to define a bill of rights concerning free speech or freedom of assembly...
...Dershowitz's motion said, "In accepting in principle the tentative recommendations of the University Governance Committee... the Law Faculty recommends that consideration be given to whether or not further efforts should be made to define the grounds for disciplining, and the rights of, officers of the University...
...Dershowitz said after the meeting yesterday that he changed his vote because "you cannot consider a procedur-al scheme in isolation from substantive standards. This proposal could be used as an excuse for not doing the hard work which more specificity requires...