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Dissolving Empire. The truth, as De Gaulle privately sees it, is really quite the reverse, according to Kaplan. Driven by dissent at home over race relations and the Viet Nam war, "surrounded on all sides by enemies and cool allies," the U.S. must appear to De Gaulle like "an emasculated monster." Far from picking on the strong, De Gaulle hopes that he is lunging at the weak. "The chief aim of De Gaulle's policy is to divide the spoils of the American empire that he sees as dissolving or at least contracting...
Dacey's lawyers appealed, but last October New York's Appellate Division upheld the lower court. In his lone dissent, Appellate Justice Harold A. Stevens wrote: "At most, the book assumes to offer general advice on common problems," and therefore was not an attempt to practice law. Moreover, said Stevens, the court's order was a violation of Dacey's right to free speech. Late last month New York's highest tribunal, the Court of Appeals, held 6 to 1 that Justice Stevens was right, voided Dacey's fine and abolished the ban. Said...
...summer of '67 marked his move from dissent to resistance, as he spent the greater part of three months "hassling" with his local board in a vain attempt to be granted CO status or be reclassified 2-S. He made numerous trips to Buffalo and couldn't hold a regular summer...
Some of the issues to be covered include the constitutional history and present status of the power to wage war, the status of the Vietnam war under international law, the history and administration of compulsory military service, and right to dissent...
Melvin Wulf, legal head of the ACLU, said the indictments mark a "major escalation in the administration's war against dissent" and that the indictments are unconstitutional...