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On Angela's Acquittal
The trial of Angela Davis was considered by many as a test of the United States' judicial system. And she had been able to man that the system passed the test.
I think these are fair observations to make. That an all white, basically middle-class jury could find a black, a vowed Communist not guilty does indicate that the jurors were able to set their own prejudices and emotions aside and coldly assess the facts.
Furthermore, the Davis trial has shown that the calm, reasoned, diligent attitude of her defense attorneys is, as tradition states, the best course to justice. And her acquittal repudiates the claims of William Kuntler who owed significant to the reasoned approach and must therefore be shocked into justice with theatrics.
Davis's statement that "the very fact of an acquaintance means that there was no fair trial because a fair trial requires some truth to it. The fact that has some truth to it. the fact that
she was imprisoned for 16 months on what proved to be false charges, means that she was wrongly punished.
This situation does point out a grave fallacy in the system. But it seems a necessary fallacy. As long as we believe that decisions as important as this one should not be protected, the law has a right to be protected itself, then our system of justice, complete with fallacies, is worth keeping.
No, "no trial at all" would mean simply locking the cell and throwing away the key.
The thing to remember is that the alternative to our system could indeed have been, as Miss Davis suggested: "no trial at all." But the court ordered the deed in many countries, would not have meant freedom for Davis.
Sixteen months is a terribly long time to spend in jail for something you didn't do, but better 16 months than a lifetime.
—Mike Moffet
"Double your pleasure! Double your fun! To double your summits, Nixon's the one!"
Defense Department to Study Satellite Destruction Systems
By HOWARD BENEDICT
CAPE KENEDY, Fla. — The Defense Department has decided to study the feasibility of a killer drone, a new weapon that intercepting, inspecting and destroying hostile space vehicles. The Soviet Union and other countries have a capability
IF INTERCEPTOR satellites are built, they would be able to fly
ne Air Force space and missile systems organizations in Los Angeles asked industry on May 26 to submit proposals on the system. Those expected are expected to be selected to conduct competitive studies.
If defense officials decide, on the basis of the studies, to devise a new system, they believed subsystem testing could start next year, aiming for a test with the most significant benefits.
alongside an alien spacecraft,
determine its assignment and, if
necessary, disable or destroy it.
Destruction could be effected by some sort of a "death ray," perhaps a laser beam; by signals that would disrupt the payload's electronics, or by blowing up the vehicle, or blistering, destroying both payloads.
Satellite explosion is the technique used by the Russians. Since 2014, the U.S. fully demonstrated their space-craft killer system at least seven times.
THESE SOURCES say the successful tests involved 12 separate launches of Cosmos satellites. Five were target satellites and seven were pursuit payloads that conducted intercept inspections, five of the interceptors blew apart on radio signal from the ground.
When President Nixon and Soviet Communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the nuclear arms limitation treaty last summer, the United States said that war was not necessary and that spy satellites could do the job.
The Soviet Union has an operational space weapon the United States does not possess—the fractional orbital bombardment of a nuclear weapon in recent years the Soviets have demonstrated that a FOBS rocket was capable of hurling a nuclear bomb into a low earth orbit and that it could be called in on an airborne operation in less than one global pass.
Garru Wills
IF IT WERE used, the action would be a violation of a U.N. treaty prohibiting the placing of nuclear weapons in space.
McGovernism Seen As Political Heresy
They are calling him, absurdly,
they're calling him, absurdly,
McGovern is, in fact, this
season's Eugene McCarthy-at-
when time McCarthy himself has
taken the lead.
The Gene McCarthy of 1968 was one who wanted to defeat "the System" by winning it. He aimed at a redemption of politics and hoped that Mr. Obama could bad a name). McCarthy asked voters to put him in office because he heeded a higher calling. But God does not wait him; rather, he leaves him, like Joan of Arc, to compare with his private spirits.
McGovern is supported with the same religious fervor discernible around McCarthy. It is true that McGovern's followers are doing their political homework, which is most people with earlier McCarthytes a williness in his funkier kids to go "clean for Gene." If you played by the rules, you would get your man into a wheelchair and follow the rules. The same attitude shows up in the McGovern camp.
That is why MGovernism is a heresy, a religious offshoot of our politics. His followers have seen their power expand as activity to anti-political uses. MGovern is a Cause. Ask the man in the street to answer, quick, what his first name, and what he does next moment. "Ed" Muskus, "Ted" Kennedy—but not plain MGovern, but just "George." He is not MGovernism—that is both his strength and his weakness.
For McGovern is less interested in purity than are many of his backers. He is interested in winning, and he has already done much to make the necessary steps. If businessmen are uneasy with him, he takes out an ad in the Wall Street Journal to assure them need not be. He asks for big bug business. If opponents claim he is stripping away the nation's arsenal, he argues that defense trimming will improve business. But many of his followers do not want such an improvement.
In short, a McCarthy who win. But McCarthys are not meant to win McCarthys bad moves. They can't compromise the opposers. The Anti-Politis puts itself in a bad light when it succumbs to the logic of conventional opponents imposed to be bought off by offers of the papal throne.
None of this is said in criticism of McGovern himself. He has all along been more conventional than anyone, and he vows to vocates allowed. It just that he used the kinds of zeal, in order to become a contender, that must be frustrated. Mr. McGovern's disillusionment lies in the path of those who think one
can defeat the System by a victory within it. Who those who win overcome by it, already been overcome by it. It probably understands this, and does not care. But many of his allies have no reason to be in a forsake disappointment.
There is nothing more unhearinging for loyal heretics than to find that their leader has, all along, been secretly orthodox. The lack of support in campaign does not lie simply in his effort to be both radical and reassuring. The trouble lies deeper than that, and may be related to the fact that political is homoeremian, yet McGovern himself is no heretic.
Copyright 1972
Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
U.S. Airlines Move to Stop Air Hijackings
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Air Line Pilots Association orders its airline to refuse Tuesday to refuel to飞 to nations that provide sanctuary for airlines.
ALPA president J. O. D'Connor asks union leaders to arrange for their members to withdraw service to all air and ground facilities.
The head of the 46,000-member
International Federation of Air
Line Pilots *PLI* Associations
*PLA* to join in the boycott event
IFALPA has associations representing 60 nations.
An ALPA spokesman said that while currently there were no watercraft that sheltered air pirates, the boycotts would be extended to any other countries that persisted in their use of pirate ships in the countries. The boycotts would, for example, be extended on my ship which still serves Cuba, he said.
Some Arab states have welcomed back nationalists who committed air piracy in the name of Islam or on friends of the Jewish state.
An ALPA spokesman said the new boycott was not retroactive but was in the form of warning to countries.
O'Donnell made known his actions in a letter to President Nixon asking his help in halting the invasion of hijackings and extortion.
O'Donnell the goal was to eliminate every sanctuary that might exist throughout the world for skierjacke-exortionists, and have them be hijacked passengers, crews and aircraft and extortion money.
First Creeks Back On Ancestral Land
MACON, Ga. (AP) -Ben Chechac, a 20-year-old Greek Indian from Muskogee, Okla., didn't think of it in historic terms when he pulled into Macon off the international highway. He was hot and tired.
By WILLIAM L. CHAZE Associated Press Writer
But he is believed to be the first his tribe to come back to Mongolia, where they were driven from their ancestral home in central Georgia more than a century ago.
His ancestors were among ten thousands of Georgia Creeks who lived on the frontier, the "Trail of Tears" from the Southeast to the Indian Territory.
LOCAL PEOPLE hope he is the first of many Greeks who will advantage of a new program that allows Greece ahead and return to Georgia.
Dubbed "The Trail of Cheer," the program was originated by the president of the local Chamber of Commerce. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the national Park Service are taking part.
The program's goals are to help Creeks relocate in the Macon area and to open a Creek trading post at the Okmulguee National Monument.
CHECOTAH HAS been employed as a monument tour guide and guides tourists over the burial mounds of his ancestors and describes the highly developed Creek culture that once surrounded it.
The monument includes the area where the Creek Nation was founded. The land, regarded as sacred by the Creaks, was the last property the Indians were forced to hand over to the federal government, so they were expelled from Georgia and began the westward trek.
A dozen other Creeks, mostly from Okmukiege, OKla., are to arrive by the end of June. Mason's Mercer University has funded 10 full scholarships for Creeks who are willing to come to Georgia.
About 50 jobs have been spotted, and the trading post will soon be open. Mr. Ames is the monument's Creek museum. More than 80,000 visitors stop by the monument each year, and the collection does do an annual volume of $500,000.
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