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...Federal Judiciary to pass on the qualifications of potential nominees. Variants of the so-called "Missouri plan" would give similar panels even more responsibility; a President could pick only from men selected during the panelists' theoretically nonpartisan deliberations. Yet the A.B.A. committee generally represents a narrow segment of successful lawyers, and it has never turned down a Supreme Court nominee. Most scholars argue that any such commission would be more likely than a President to rule out unconventional candidates...
...Street Journal is no average underground paper, neither is San Diego an average U.S. city. Largely a Navy town with a sizable segment of retired servicemen and retired civilians, San Diego is prototype John Birch country. Both of its daily papers, owned by James S. Copley, reflect the city's mood, emphasizing Navy activities, Rotary Club meetings and flag ceremonies -downplaying local black and Mexican-American problems. Copley papers will not even advertise, let alone review, X-rated films like Midnight Cowboy...
...homosexual, I would like to point out that a socially stable and unrepressed homosexual segment of the society is a rational counterbalance to the burgeoning population. This is another good reason to support gay liberation...
WHILE the disruption of the faculty meeting two weeks ago and the ensuing confrontations could not have occurred without this tension between a segment of students and faculty, these events were in no way inevitable. When the Ad Board first pressed charges against the five black students, the Harvard Black Law Student Association issued a statement branding the Board an "apparent kangaroo court" whose hearings constituted a "quasi-judicial lynching." Claiming that the OBU trial of January 13 was "the only tribunal [it could] acknowledge as legitimate," the HBLSA said it considered the hearings "a farce." But after the hearings...
...Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)-a Boston area group involved with the misuse of science-sponsored the conference to kick-off the Boston segment of the national March 4 movement...