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...money involved in taking a case to court often turn a petitioner white with anger and blue with frustration. If the whole enterprise takes an unconscionable length of time, is there no recourse? Too often, there is not. But in a recent decision, U.S. District Court Judge Marvin E. Frankel ruled that there are times when delay can be clearly illegal. His decision was largely an eloquent lecture on the abuses of administrative power...
...twelve questionable books mailed from France (sample titles: Sodom, Lust, Busy Bodies') and kept them impounded for five months, the importer, one Mel Friedman, decided to fight back. "Having concluded that the Government suppressed the books for an unlawfully protracted time" without initiating any legal proceeding, said Frankel, it was only proper that they be released-"even though we go on the assumption that the books are indeed obscene...
...President plans to continue this secrecy, wrote Max Frankel in the New York Times, because he fears the new light that the testimony would cast on the Administration's intervention. Frankel revealed in a recent story that the officials were determined from the beginning to prevent a victory by Juan Bosch's supportors, and that they explicitly solicited from the military junta the urgent request that the U.S. send troops to protect American lives...
According to Frankel, whose distinguished reporting in the past makes the reliability of this information almost unquestionable, the Senate testimony also reveals that the Administration seriously considered an attack on the rebel forces shortly after beginning its "neutral" peace-keeping operation--and that it abandoned the plan only because of the high casualties expected to result among women and children...
...Administration, Frankel wrote, fears that publication of this information would "rekindle a bitter debate and furnish new ammunition to its critics." Officials are correct, no doubt, in their expectation that the testimony would cause at least some adverse reaction...