Dear Editor
Dear Editor Defense Lawyers I am sure that if Richard H. Kuh ("An Indictment of the Defense Bar," NL, September 17) has the names of any specific lawyers or judges who do not measure up to the...
...Astound-ingly, Rodman somehow managed to maintain an even hand and a cool head in the face of unrelieved propaganda and oppressive sentimentality...
...Moreover, inaccurate political labels are unfairly used to gain support: The Nixon Administration, for example, has claimed that charges of corruption are the product of liberals* imaginations...
...In addition, the spectacle of the Governor of New York packing the criminal bench with political appointees is not likely to stimulate increased respect for judicial authority...
...The jungle can be cleared only by its custodians-the judges and the legislators...
...Malcolm Wilson Lieutenant Governor, State of New York Richard Kuh has written a sardonic and severe critique of the New York defense bar...
...Yet today many liberals try to break unions and deny certain scholarships to whites...
...Of all the pieces on the tragic affair that I have seen in American magazines and newspapers, it was the only one to present an objective, balanced view...
...and whatever one may think of his sincerity (I, for one, never doubted it) Al-lende was unquestionably an ideologue-trying to impose by force an equalitarian, materialistic philosophy upon an unyielding reality...
...Chile's real need, however, is not order but justice, and this can come only from the Christian Democrats, the one political party that affirms a creed that is neither materialistic nor repressive: It alone marches under the banner of the Catholic Faith...
...And as a state legislator, I believe that laws restructuring the criminal courts are an indispensable first step to reform...
...The conclusions I draw, though, are somewhat more charitable than his: Defendants' lawyers work in a jungle and adapt to it both professionally and economically...
...Dear Editor Defense Lawyers I am sure that if Richard H. Kuh ("An Indictment of the Defense Bar," NL, September 17) has the names of any specific lawyers or judges who do not measure up to the standards that all citizens expect the bar and bench to maintain, he will provide such information to the appropriate authorities the Judicial Conference in the case of judges, and the Grievance Committee of the Bar Association, which has jurisdiction in the case of lawyers...
...Albany, N.Y...
...I would certainly appreciate it if one of The New Leader's philosophic economists would clarify this muddled terminology...
...Strict Constitutional construction, conservation and anti-Communism are thought of as conservative positions, but many conservatives at present violate the Bill of Rights, oppose depollution measures and offer concessions to the Russians...
...Often, the same policy is considered liberal by some people and conservative by others...
...Mexico City Tomas Rodriguez Definitions There is great confusion over the meaning of "liberaT and "conservative" these days...
...Liberals, on the other hand, are supposed to favor labor unions and nondiscriminatory scholarships...
...order can be preserved by no other means than military decree, backed up by the gun and the prison camp...
...Albany, N.Y...
...The Left would like to raise Salvador Al-lende to the status of a martyr, but martyrdom, alas, requires a certain degree of rectitude, not simply an abundance of righteousness...
...However, judges have a strong lobby in Albany, and their interest has not been in major structural change...
...New York City Richard H. Shulman...
...The tene of a court is set by the bench, which has failed to exercise the diligence and care necessary to establish the dignity of judicial process...
...Until politicians take their hands off the courts, we should not be surprised that defense attorneys seek a level in common with their clients and those who judge them...
...Chile's Armed Forces, as Rodman indicates, recognized this fact and acted...
...As for the Right, it would have us believe that the Army must remain in power, that The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Jack E. Bronston, Ranking Minority Member, Senate Judiciary Committee Chile I was very pleased to read Selden Rodman's "The Lessons of Chile" (NL, October IS...
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