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...their quest for power, West Germany's Social Democrats have depended for nearly two decades on the guidance of Herbert Wehner, a brusque, brilliant tactician whose devotion to the Socialist cause is equaled only by his towering rage at any dissent within his party. Second in the hierarchy after Party Leader Willy Brandt, Wehner formulated the policy that has shaped the party's destiny, including the decision to join the rival Christian Democrats in West Germany's historic Grand Coalition. Last week, in a move that was certain to have profound effects not only on the party...
...dominated everything. And the October action began with massive protests against the war--draft-card turn-ins that were supposed to symbolize a new direction for the anti-war movement, "from dissent to resistence...
...propelled him past some of the more senior Justices to a position as one of the court's most brilliant and intriguing members. Last week the public at large got a clearer view of Fortas' mind at work as Signet Books published his 64-page pamphlet Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience, a compact discussion of the issues that have been raised by what he calls "the most profound and pervasive revolution ever achieved by substantially peaceful means...
Demoralized Side. Fortas, 58, wrote the booklet during and after a series of speaking trips to college campuses last year. Those trips "got me scared," he explained. Sympathetic to the aspirations of rebellious Negroes, Viet Nam war protesters and students, he fully endorses their right to dissent; yet he points out that "the motive of civil disobedience, whatever its type, does not confer immunity for law violation. The dissident may be right in the eyes of history or morality or philosophy. But these are not controlling. Just as we expect the government to be bound by all laws, so each...
...area largely because of his militant stand on civil rights, later was dismissed from a teaching post at Epiphany College in Newburgh N.Y., because of his strong antiwar stand. In opposing the Viet Nam wa, the brothers have openly violated the law out of conviction that other means of dissent have been exhausted. "I have tried all the conventional and legal forms of protest to little or no avail" says Philip, who argues that both Christ and Paul allowed the possibility of civil disobedience when man's law counters God's. The government, of course, could not agree...