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COMMENT Hostages The confrontation between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran is in its fifth week as this issue of The Progressive goes to press, and it grows more...
...That left only the dump at Barnwell, South Carolina, operated by Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc., which had held 85 per cent of the nation's commercial low-level wastes...
...There has not been a new fact over the last ten years, and there won't be...
...Each year, the dump will take at least 1.2 million cubic feet less than had earlier been allowed...
...Enough problems have already beset established waste facilities to suggest that localities will not welcome them to the neighborhood...
...Swedish banks, which have made significant profits in South Africa, will also be seriously affected...
...The law does permit political surveillance in some situations: It provides for special investigations needed to protect visiting dignitaries, and the law-breaking involved in the nonviolent civil disobedience often practiced by the anti-nuclear movement could be used to justify surveillance of anti-nuclear groups...
...He said the state feels it can "live with" most of the required remedy, balking only at the portion that would eliminate any disproportionate rate of black EMR enrollment...
...Radicals had long suspected that undercover agents were uninvited observers at their meetings and rallies, but the general public first became aware that something was amiss in 1974, when Police Chief Robert Hanson announced he had destroyed more than 100 intelligence files he found "inappropriate...
...Painful as his inevitable slippage in popularity and the raw Chappaquiddick jokes must have been for him, Kennedy apparently preferred them to making a full disclosure," Sher-rill observed...
...The suit turned up a rich lode of information...
...Judge Peckham's opinion—110 pages of text and twenty-one pages of footnotes—upheld the plaintiffs (represented by the San Francisco public-interest law firm of Public Advocates, Inc...
...Whether the threat posed by a resurgent Klan is actual or potential—and how serious that threat may be—is subject to debate...
...Ten per cent of these Klansmen are thought to reside in North Carolina...
...Did he behave so strangely after the fatal accident because he had lost his head—or because he had a career to protect...
...They knew, for example, that Dr...
...Given these varied economic interests, it was not surprising that the law was preceded by long, hard, and sometimes bitter negotiations between the Swedish government and industry...
...The new Police Intelligence Ordinance prohibits police from gathering information about a person's political, religious, or sexual behavior unless there is reasonable suspicion that he or she is involved in a crime...
...Should Congress endorse Governor Riley's proposal, the company would have an easier time in its future efforts...
...Henry Kissinger, and his banker...
...Klansmen were referred to as "cowards," "two-bit punks," and "scum," and were warned that the purpose of the demonstration was "to organize to physically smash the racist KKK wherever it rears its ugly head...
...The leaders of the North Carolina Communist Workers Party, a Maoist faction composed of black and white veterans of various leftist organizations active in Durham and Greensboro over the past dozen years, decided that the Klan needed to be crushed before a declining economy swelled its numbers into an army of fascist reaction...
...Both parties to the suit agree that its impact will reach far beyond blacks and EMR classes...
...The Bureau would be allowed to initiate investigations when it believes a person or group "has engaged, is engaged, or will engage in" a violation of U.S...
...The charter asserts the commendable principle that the FBI shall not conduct an investigation "solely on the basis of a religious or political view," but the principle is totally undermined by the charter's criteria for the jurisdiction of the FBI and the investigative techniques it may employ...
...That the seizure of fifty Americans in Iran should elicit such a response is tragic—and understandable...
...It is possible, too...
...With a responsive mayor and city council, Seattle recently became the first American city to pass legislation placing strict controls on police powers to gather political information...
...Our Government could begin by offering a profound public apology to the Iranian people for the irreparable injury it has visited upon them...
...As a start, California will probably stop using IQ tests to place children in classes for gifted students—the other major use of the tests...
...Now low-level wastes— including secondary cooling waters, gloves, boots, and instruments that have become slightly radioactive from contact with nuclear materials—seem to offer problems as serious as those posed by high-level wastes...
...defendants have failed to show a valid, legal justification for their use for black EMR placement...
...And on close examination, S. 1612, the proposed FBI charter legislation, proves to be worse than half a loaf...
...We don't agree...
...Under two earlier preliminary injunctions, IQ tests have not been used to place black students in EMR classes since 1971 in San Francisco schools and since 1974 throughout California...
...But the government also moved one step further to argue that the role of apartheid in black labor exploitation is intimately related to economic growth in South Africa...
...Meanwhile, Public Advocates hopes to make the whole question moot with a petition to the U.S...
...This intent was not necessarily to hurt black children," Peckham wrote, "but it was an intent to assign a grossly disproportionate number of black children to the special EMR classes...
...Throughout that quarter of a century, his brutal regime was huckstered to Americans as a model of enlightenment, progress, and freedom...
...This provision broadens the usual standard for police investigations—when there is reason to believe a crime is "about to take place"—by allowing the Bureau to decide, on the basis of stated political beliefs, that a group is a potential law breaker...
...At minimum, the ordinance makes police wary," says Coalition coordinator Kathleen Taylor...
...on virtually every point...
...By January 1982, the facility will be able to accept no more than 100,000 cubic feet of wastes a month...
...The cause of peace can not be advanced by acts of violence...
...They're going to have to think twice every time they want to collect something...
...And they refused Judge Fitzgerald's offer of leniency in exchange for a promise to refrain from doing so again...
...Rex Wingerter (Rex Wingerter is a Washington free-lance writer specializing in U.S...
...The bill makes no provision for effective review of FBI operations by persons or institutions outside the Department of Justice...
...Your Majesty, and to your leadership, and to the respect, admiration, and love which your people give to you...
...Late in 1976, three targets of surveillance—the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Friends Service Committee, and the National Lawyers Guild—formed a Coalition on Government Spying to press for strict controls over intelligence-gathering...
...As Professor Thomas Emerson of the Yale Law School has pointed out, the political intent is obvious: The FBI does not investigate corporations because it believes they will engage in anti-trust violations...
...The facts are out," he told a recent interviewer...
...In leaflets, press releases, public statements, and letters mailed personally to Klan leaders, the CWP challenged the Klan to come out and "face the wrath of the people...
...Behind the appearance of reform, there is little substance—and some broad new grants of investigative authority to the Bureau...
...Individually, the shooting victims represented the finest of the generation of the late 1960s and early 1970s...
...Such persons may sue the city for damages, and offending officers are subject to disciplinary action...
...All the American working class required, they were certain, was a "vanguard party" to lead them to a seizure of state power...
...But a document that proclaims these liberties and then legitimizes even more dangerous intrusions is worse than no "reform" at all...
...But their success hinges largely on the United States, whose economic position in South Africa is paramount...
...He also appointed a blue-ribbon panel to examine police intelligence practices, but allowed the members access only to intelligence unit policy manuals...
...The Coalition tried to meet valid police objections without diluting the protection of political rights...
...Every independent investigation of Chappaquiddick—the latest a probing account by Robert Sherrill—has raised questions that only Kennedy can answer...
...But citizens concerned with protecting civil liberties viewed the disclosures in a different light...
...role in installing and maintaining the Shah in power, and about the crimes he committed at our behest...
...Even if significant limits on FBI action were part of this bill—and clearly they are not—they would have little meaning...
...She thus became one of hundreds of citizens whose names found their way into Seattle police files after they engaged in lawful political activities...
...Kenton T. Hoffmann and Robert J. Dietrich, members of the Catholic Worker Community in Los Angeles, were already on probation for a similar trespass at the 1978 Military Electronics Exposition in Orange County...
...They have all leaked radioactive materials, occasionally threatening the water supplies of nearby communities...
...They must prove their compliance with the embargo by submitting a detailed operating report to the government every year...
...Armando Menocal, chief attorney for the plaintiffs, said that if the Department of Education doesn't voluntarily extend the ban to gifted classes, his firm would be prepared to sue for that result...
...But you see," McGloin said, "there is the very real possibility of a false solution to the economic crisis that we're in now, of fascism, and that's what motivated the action of the CWP...
...This is a great tribute to you...
...Judge Peckham took pains to acknowledge in his ruling that no judicial decree could hope to resolve what he termed "the emotionally charged debate about the nature of 'intelligence' and its basis in 'genes' or the 'environment.'" He also noted that his opinion "should not be construed as a final judgment on the scientific validity of intelligence tests...
...The witnesses, all friends of the Senator, have kept silent...
...As recently as December 31...
...Unfortunately, however, most Americans are still ignorant of—or indifferent to—the assaults on human dignity and freedom committed in our name by our Government, and the role such assaults played in creating the crisis that has preoccupied the world since early November...
...Yet until the November 3 shootings, they were just working-class victims...
...That is not because the answers to the questions, however damaging they might be, would necessarily reflect on his qualifications for the office...
...Almost half were unemployed, and the others worked only occasionally...
...Firms operating in South Africa are allowed only to replace worn out parts or machinery...
...It contained information on a Guild tavern benefit, a leaflet distributed by the Guild, license plates, home addresses, and names of persons who had attended a peaceful demonstration, and a Guild film showing (on illegal government spying...
...But the Swedish Parliament does see its restrictions as having important psychological effects...
...Under this plan, Riley said, "I think you'll end up with twelve to fourteen sites...
...The police were forced to admit that files were still being maintained on eighteen of the plaintiffs in 1977—months after Chief Hanson had denied the existence of such files...
...In 1953, when Iranians had taken control of their own government and driven the Shah into exile, it was the United States that overthrew the government of Mohammed Mossa-deq and restored the Shah...
...Seattle's law requires that the "least obtrusive" means of gathering information be used—a provison the Coalition hopes will bar the use of informants and infiltrators at public protests...
...Some of the press succumbed to the temptation of simplistic symmetry, reducing the affair to a totally avoidable fight picked by a lunatic fringe group from one end of the political spectrum with another group from the opposing extreme...
...There have been no abuses by the police," insisted former intelligence unit commander Ray Connery, "unless you count collecting information that proved inconsequential...
...The police have put the entire force through two days of special classes on how to apply the new regulations...
...if it continues to stand aside, repression under apartheid can only intensify...
...Under an amendment to the state's license with Chem-Nuclear, the November 1979 limit was cut to 189,000 cubic feet of waste materials, down from a previous level of 200,000...
...And Riley claims he "got an understanding" from NRC officials that the Commission would adopt tactics similar to those of the proposed Energy Mobilization Board...
...Our dictionary defines crisis as a turning point—"a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined...
...The Swedish government's action also represents a special challenge to the United States, for it flatly rejected Washington's justification for continued economic involvement in the apartheid regime...
...Only a sense of common interest on the part of black and white working people, the historic victims and dupes of Klan violence, will put an end to it forever...
...When the Klansmen (and several Nazis) were taken into custody in Greensboro, everything was grotesquely wrong: They had the beards and long hair...
...If the state does appeal, Griffin said, it will be on the basis of an allegedly illegal quota...
...The part of me that really loves Mike," said Gale Touger, "feels like that wasn't an important enough reason for him to die...
...Three commercial low-level sites have already been closed...
...The largest file, a seventy-eight page dossier on the National Lawyers Guild, painted a picture of extensive surveillance...
...The holding of hostages—at any time, under any circumstance, and for any reason—is an ugly business...
...Even now a majority of our citizens fail to understand the loathing Iranians feel toward their deposed Shah, the crimes he committed against the Iranian people, or the role of the Government of the United States in inspiring, aiding, and abetting those crimes...
...Faced with the realities of apartheid, the Swedish government ultimately determined that to transform South Africa, "change can come only as a result of pressure, not by appealing to the good will of the companies...
...Typical were the reports on black activist Larry Gossett: "Modus Operandi: Advocate of various Third World causes...
...Greensboro massacre On July 8, 1979, there was an armed confrontation in China Grove, North Carolina, between young members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) and a group of Ku Klux Klansmen who had gathered for a benefit showing of Birth of a Nation...
...But equally significant is the fact that Parliament was fully aware of the prohibition's detrimental effect on the Swedish economy...
...Membership in the various factions of the Klan is on the rise, in the North as well as the South, with an estimated national enrollment of 10,000...
...The word crisis has been so abused and overused in our time that it has virtually lost all meaning...
...All this helps to explain, but does not excuse, the seizure of the hostages in Teheran...
...The company had sought to establish a storage facility near Cimarron, New Mexico, in 1978, but had to give up when the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Agency demanded costly and time-consuming site-study requirements...
...The Senator himself has maintained that stance as a Presidential candidate...
...That assumption without validation is unacceptable, and it is made all the more invidious when 'legitimated' by ostensibly neutral, scientific IQ scores...
...The Pentagon's demands for international "strike forces" receive a respectful hearing from quarters that would have scorned the idea a few months ago...
...Their friends knew better...
...And the Swedes hope their step will spearhead this movement...
...The bill fails to define the circumstances in which FBI investigations may be commenced and continued...
...Taylor reports that a state legislator in Michigan has redrafted the ordinance for use in his state, and a citizen's group in Washington, D.C., has proposed a similar law for the nation's capital...
...Yet if other sites are not established soon, hospitals with nuclear medicine departments and some power plants will have no place to store their wastes, and conceivably will have to shut their doors...
...An expanding economy will not "uplift" blacks, contrary to the contentions of U.S...
...So great were "the respect, admiration, and love" of his people that neither his huge arsenal nor his privileged army could keep him in power...
...assertion that foreign firms play a liberalizing role in South Africa...
...As in other cities, revelations in the press and from a lawsuit have shown a pattern of widespread infringement of civil liberties in police investigations...
...The scope and nature of the military attack for which the United States surely has made contingency plans are unknown, and the potential consequences are unimaginable...
...This was no trivial offense...
...But he added, "Just because we got our feelings hurt about it, that's no reason to appeal...
...And the most disturbing question of all is why Kennedy believes the answers need not be supplied...
...Obviously, it will take more than a law to change longstanding practices...
...The plaintiffs charged that the heavy over-representation of black students in special classes for the "educable mentally retarded" (EMR) resulted from the use of IQ test scores, and that this constituted cultural and racial discrimination in violation of California and Federal laws and the Constitution of the United States...
...within a month, two were closed because of persistent difficulties...
...They hope their action gives warning to the apartheid regime and solace to the blacks that the Western countries are prepared to sacrifice a part of their short-term economic interests to end apartheid in South Africa...
...but the Department of Education, he added, might simply decide to "take our chances on the order, and then worry about it later" if the enrollment rates don't change adequately...
...Stephen Hoffius (Stephen Hoffius is a free-lance writer in Charleston, South Carolina...
...To this writing, at least, concern for the safety of the Americans in the Embassy (and for world opinion) has imposed restraint on the Government of the United States...
...The Swedish government has thus asked President Carter whether human rights, the "cornerstone" of his foreign policy, applies to South Africa...
...Among them were illiterates and burned-out Vietnam veterans...
...William Ristow (William Ristow, a free-lance writer in San Francisco, wrote about the "Larry P." case in the November 1978 issue of The Progressive...
...The defendants plainly were intent upon subverting an institution traditionally linked with our "national security...
...In one instance, Seattle police forwarded to Portland colleagues an unsubstantiated claim that a Chicano leader advocated terrorist acts— information he believes could have endangered his life...
...David Rockefeller, when they urged that he be allowed to go to New York...
...It could make financial restitution—out of the Shah's ill-gotten treasures and our own—for the economic devastation that has been visited upon Iran...
...The incident took place nearly fifty years, to the day, after striking textile workers and communist organizers in nearby Gastonia, North Carolina, were involved in a shoot-out with police and local vigilantes that left several dead...
...No shots were fired, but the radicals, many of whom had been doing union organizing work in area textile mills, defiantly burned two Confederate flags...
...Waste-dump proliferation Disposal of high-level radioactive nuclear wastes is a dilemma that continues to plague the nation...
...In this connection, the FBI would also be allowed to investigate anyone it believes is "associated with" persons or groups involved in "terrorist activities...
...More than $44 million in Swedish investments in South Africa are endangered...
...His file chronicled an interview with a campus newspaper, a speech at a demonstration, an appearance at a picket line, and participation in a political meeting...
...The Senate Judiciary Committee should start over from scratch in an effort to impose genuine restraints on the FBI...
...The cause of freedom can not be advanced by depriving people of their freedom...
...Crude jin-goist slogans of a kind that should have been consigned forever to the dustbin of history are again heard in our streets, scrawled on our walls, and pompously recited on editorial pages...
...This unilateral prohibition will be in force until the "abolishment of the apartheid system...
...Curbing police spies Lena Kaplan was troubled by the B-2 bomber program...
...businessmen...
...They campaigned to free political prisoners and end the blight of brown lung...
...Department of Education requesting a nationwide ban on these and similar uses of IQ tests...
...This intent, consistent only with an impermissible and unsupportable assumption of a higher incidence of mental retardation among blacks, cannot be allowed in the face of the constitutional prohibition of racial discrimination...
...The cause of justice can not be advanced by committing injustice...
...The economic dynamics between the races under apartheid, the Swedes concluded, can do no more than "simply to preserve the privileged white minority's control over the economy...
...Said mayoral aide Hugh Spitzer, "The police have gone too far and cast their net too wide...
...The Seattle Police Department established its intelligence unit in 1956...
...Specifically, the law prohibits new investments by Swedish firms or their subsidiaries, bans the purchase of South African stocks or bonds, and limits Swedish bank loans to a two-year maturity...
...All investigations involving collection of "restricted information" must be authorized in writing by a commanding officer...
...It could tell the world—and the American people—in all candor about the U.S...
...A blow at IQ testing In a sweeping and strongly worded opinion, a Federal judge in San Francisco ruled in mid-October that IQ tests may not be used to classify black students as mentally retarded...
...But now that he is a candidate for President, Kennedy has made them our business, too...
...At a crowded memorial service in Durham, most of the mourners were clinic patients who knew nothing of his politics...
...Educators," Judge Peckham wrote in his conclusion, "have too often been able to rationalize inaction by blaming educational failure on an assumed intellectual inferiority of disproportionate numbers of black children...
...Even the Shah, monstrous as his crimes are and have been, should not be used as a bargaining chip...
...Furthermore, long-distance shipping costs would be cut...
...But there are certainly some steps that could and should be taken—and that have not yet been tried...
...It is because, for ten-and-a-half years now, there have been no answers...
...Chief Hanson eventually admitted to having shredded more than 700 files...
...Sweden and apartheid The Swedish Parliament recently enacted the most comprehensive ban on investments to South Africa and Namibia ever ordered by a Western government...
...criminal law...
...At China Grove, both sides vowed they would meet again...
...They worked in clinics in Guatemala, cut cane in Cuba, and raised money for medical supplies for guerrillas in Zimbabwe...
...But if Washington learned anything from the experience, it has failed to show it...
...The local prosecutor, Michael Schlosser, charging the group with conspiracy and first-degree murder, characterized the men as "a band of marauders, fourteen strong, that descended upon Greensboro, cutting a path of destruction that left dead and bloody bodies...
...Who shouted first and who shot first is for the courts to decide, but within four minutes five members of the Communist Workers Party were dead or dying and two more were critically wounded...
...Afterwards, some people gathered in an apartment and told a reporter how they explained the death of Mike and the others to themselves...
...it was a serious and admirable confrontation with the lunatic arms race, and the judge paid them tribute by sentencing them accordingly...
...A banner hung from the CWP headquarters urged comrades to "Turn Grief into Strength," but among some of the local leftists sadness yielded to anguish, anger, frustration, and even bitterness...
...In Durham, old friends and long-time acquaintances of the dead and critically wounded were shell-shocked...
...They really believed absolutely that this was the point in time to take that strong and that militant a stand against the KKK," said Tim McGloin...
...Past FBI practices provide ample evidence of the abuses to which such an approach can lead...
...Christened the Subversive Activities Unit, it had the mission of gathering background information not collected during routine police investigations...
...Americans are right to recoil in horror from such an assault on human freedom and dignity...
...That requirement, he said, "we consider to be a racial quota, and that gives us trouble...
...It has always seemed to us that these and other questions about Chappaquiddick were mainly the business of Senator Edward Kennedy, the survivors of Mary Jo Kopechne, and the law enforcement authorities of Massachusetts...
...On October 31, South Carolina Governor Richard W. Riley revealed plans to reduce drastically the wastes stored in South Carolina...
...Restraining the TBI When Senator Edward M. Kennedy introduced legislation to impose a new legal structure on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he remarked that the new charter was "drafted by the Bureau...
...What followed was a quarter century of savage repression and a wholesale plundering of the Iranian people by the King of Kings whom America has kept propped up on his Peacock Throne...
...If there are to be no facts, it will be because Kennedy chooses not to give them...
...The city council invited Coalition representatives to sit down with police and city officials to help hammer out an acceptable draft—a process that took sixteen months...
...indeed, the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C., said it was unaware of the Swedish prohibition...
...It is improbable," concluded a Swedish report, "that Swedish companies which are subjected to South African legislation could affect the conditions of the South African labor market to any extent...
...in others, regional sites...
...The bill also creates a broad new category of FBI investigation—terrorist activities...
...In the interests of security, the young revolutionaries secretly moved the staging site a block from the announced one and arrived at the street corner with wooden staves and a few concealed handguns...
...District Judge Robert F. Peckham's decision resulted from an eight-year-old class-action suit, Larry P. et al...
...At the national level, this meant that the Communist Workers Party adopted positions supporting the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, applauding the Khomeini government in Iran for sentencing fourteen Trotskyists to death (for being "counter-revolutionary dogs") and, in this country, opposing the Equal Rights Amendment as a "bourgeois trick...
...Included with the expected socialists and radical organizers was a healthy sprinkling of liberal lawyers, journalists, politicians, and even members of the clergy...
...That is his privilege as a citizen...
...The Swedes judged as fallacious the U.S...
...But, he continued, "Whatever the general scientific merits of the tests...
...1977, when the Shah's regime was already crumbling around him...
...Police, who preferred administrative guidelines to a new law, sought to limit the scope of the ordinance so that it would not hamstring criminal investigations or "stifle police initiative...
...But somewhere along the way, in their increasing ideological insularity, these dedicated people came to believe that the only spark needed to ignite a generalized revolutionary conflagration in the United States was the development of the correct "line...
...It's not a proposal that local or state officials will welcome, but the nuclear industries could hardly have fashioned a better one...
...Most important of all, it could come to terms with the reality that the ruinous policies we have employed in the pursuit of empire are the cause of the crisis in Iran—and will inevitably continue to cause crises of ever greater proportions unless they are abandoned...
...Embassy in Teheran will trigger the military response that Washington has threatened to unleash...
...Doug Honig (Doug Honig, a Seattle free-lance writer, writes regularly for Northwest Passage...
...Instead, the Carter Administration was pleased to accommodate the Shah's favorite pitchman...
...Meanwhile, Swedish firms are expected only to "subsist" while the government helps them seek replacement markets for their ultimate withdrawal from South Africa...
...Four were medical school graduates, and two had been college student-body presidents...
...Mark Pinsky (Mark Pinksy is a free-lance writer in Durham, North Carolina...
...Was his destination the ferry that would take her home, or was he looking for a secluded place to park...
...The Shah was gone a few weeks later...
...The new ruling makes the injunction permanent, and further requires several specific remedies: The state must reevaluate every black child currently in an EMR class, and it must eliminate, within three years, the disproportionately high enrollment of black students in these classes...
...Part of [the Klan's] attraction to white youth is their militancy," said Nelson Johnson, a black CWP leader...
...Technically, the ruling applies only to the state of California and only to one specific use of one type of test, but it is certain to have a significant impact on the long-standing debate over IQ tests—and it could eventually affect the entire standardized testing industry in the United States...
...Iran Is Helping U.S...
...The letter caught the eye of someone in the intelligence unit of the Seattle Police Department, so it was clipped from the paper and placed in an intelligence file...
...As with all other files obtained under the lawsuit, there was no evidence of any criminal activity by its subject...
...Government economists predict that the restriction will reduce trade between the two countries—and reduce the 3,000 Swedish job opportunities that depend on South African business...
...In some instances, he explained, this could mean state waste sites...
...His proposed bill was based on a draft submitted by the Coalition on Government Spying...
...If Washington were to follow the Swedish lead, change in South Africa would be inevitable...
...Even such an outcome, desirable as it is, will leave the world more dangerous than it was before...
...The list of organizations to which they once belonged was familiar: Medical Committee for Human Rights, HealthPac, the New American Movement, African Liberation Support Committee, Progressive Labor Party, Students Organized for Black Unity, and the Communist Party, U.S.A...
...Even their racism seemed divorced from reality: In the economically depressed area from which they came, less than 10 per cent of the population is black...
...Under this politically appealing rubric, the FBI would be permitted to investigate conduct which now violates only state or local laws—thus expanding Federal police powers...
...The niggers have got your jobs...
...COMMENT Hostages The confrontation between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran is in its fifth week as this issue of The Progressive goes to press, and it grows more dangerous by the day...
...And it is possible that somehow a solution will still be found that avoids the shedding of human blood—the blood of the hostages, of Iranians, of American military personnel, and of the multitudes that might fall victim to a larger conflict...
...The cover-up Was he drunk or sober when he drove the car off the bridge...
...Whether Congress adopts Riley's proposal or some other, it must move quickly...
...Kennedy himself has done nothing to dispel the vagueness and contradictions of his early accounts...
...Greensboro city police requested that the demonstrators bear no arms and promised, in exchange, to provide full protection...
...Before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the House Committee on Science and Technology, Governor Riley proposed a solution: He suggested that each state take responsibility for its own wastes...
...The ordinance eventually adopted emerged from an unusual series of meetings...
...The impact of the charter, therefore, is to open the door to a vast array of "preventive" FBI activities...
...Abuses of civil liberties at least as serious as those committed under J. Edgar Hoover would now be cloaked in legal authority...
...The crisis may come to a head before these words reach their intended readers...
...Investigative techniques the FBI may employ are even broadened by allowing the FBI access to telephone records, insurance files, and credit histories without judicial warrant or even notice to the subject...
...Death to the KKK...
...But the government's opposition to apartheid and commitment to human rights held fast against the pressures of multinational business...
...NRC Chairman Joseph M. Hendrie expressed support for Riley's proposal...
...Hanson promised that as long as he was chief, "no political investigations or invasions of privacy will occur...
...They say, 'You're out of work...
...The warning was ignored...
...But as a candidate seeking the judgment of the American people—and one who, ironically, has chosen to subordinate issues of substance to issues of character—he is likely to pay a higher and fairer price for his continuing cover-up than for anything he did or failed to do at Chappaquiddick...
...The law's aim is to bring "concrete pressure to bear on the white population and government" of South Africa to end apartheid, a form of racial exploitation the Swedish government judged to be "unparalleled," "especially repugnant," and a "threat to international peace and security...
...that even in the absence of physical harm to the hostages, the Carter Administration may eventually succumb to a rising chorus of demands for a macho display of American "muscle...
...Most important, the judge accepted the allegation that the state Department of Education's use of IQ scores as one measure of "retardation" involved intentional discrimination...
...Seattle's pioneering law has already drawn much interest from other cities and states...
...The Attorney General is required only to provide Congress with such information as he chooses...
...it would try to cut the licensing time now needed before low-level waste burial grounds can be established...
...Lena Kaplan's name was underlined and indexed in a separate card file...
...President Jimmy Carter lifted a glass in Teheran and delivered an adoring toast: "Iran, under the great leadership of the Shah, is an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world...
...But the police, who had revealed the change in plans to a local Klansman, remained at the original site and were not on hand when carloads of Klansmen— that were under police surveillance—drove into the milling crowd of CWP members and supporters...
...What is not debatable is that the threat will not be blunted, or even deflected, by a tragic Kamikaze attack from the Left's sectarian stratosphere...
...Despite the obvious and widely publicized abuses of the COINTELPRO program, the charter contains no express ban on such activities...
...Those who had jobs worked in textile plants or furniture factories, neither of which had unions...
...Some Seattle citizens worry that police will just grow more sophisticated in their approaches to political surveillance...
...This action puts the Swedish government in sharp opposition to its Western allies, whose economic investments are indispensable to the maintenance of the apartheid regime...
...The American Embassy in Teheran warned that admission of the Shah to the United States would create grave difficulties...
...It is possible that an act of violence, calculated or inadvertant, against one or more of the fifty Americans held hostage in the U.S...
...That action must be condemned not only because it is inherently dangerous—most of all to the Iranian people—but because it is inherently unjust...
...The new ordinance goes into effect in January, and it is expected to serve as a model for laws restricting police snooping elsewhere...
...Representatives of the nuclear power and nuclear medicine industries expressed dismay: The actions at the three sites, they said, could endanger the future of both industries...
...to Shed Fear of Intervening Abroad," said a New York Times headline on December 2. Within a few short weeks, the urgent lessons of Vietnam have been unlearned by many millions of Americans...
...Come with us, and we'll show them.'" The CWP scheduled a "Death to the Klan" rally and march for November 3, 1979, in a predominately black, working-class section of Greensboro...
...An auditor appointed by the mayor is to review investigative files and notify individuals whose civil liberties have been violated...
...The FBI needs a charter that will prevent it from violating the civil liberties of political dissenters...
...Nor do we believe that the Government of the United States, having granted asylum to the Shah, can simply hand him over to the government of Iran in exchange for the hostages...
...The Swedes are under no illusion that their action alone can compel the white regime to change...
...At the end of last September, three commercial low- level nuclear waste facilities were in operation in this country...
...No ordinary trespass Some say Municipal Judge Robert R. Fitzgerald acted too severely when he handed down jail terms of five months and twenty-nine days to two of thirty-six peaceful demonstrators who violated the trespass laws at a recent military technology show in Anaheim, California...
...The CIA*s covert operations enjoy a new surge of support...
...As Governor Riley admits, "No state is going to develop a site unless it is required to do so...
...no new productive capacity can be added...
...So the fifty-nine-year-old refugee from Nazi Germany wrote a letter to the Seattle Times suggesting that President Carter "explain on television his priorities and the long-range effect on the country...
...If we were to come to terms with that reality, we could salvage something of immense value from the current crisis: It could be defined as the turning point at which all future events are determined for the better rather than for the worse...
...the law also forfeits any future advances for Swedish firms operating there...
...policy toward South Africa and the Middle East...
...Wilson Riles et al...
...But there is no reason to assume that the restraint will be indefinitely maintained—particularly under the political pressures of a Presidential election campaign...
...And Griffin admitted, "I realize it would be difficult for us to win a case if black people were suing because we used the tests to screen black kids out of gifted programs...
...Thomas Griffin, chief counsel for the California Department of Education, told me he and other state officials consider the court's finding of discriminatory intent "absolutely outrageous...
...A year later, the news media uncovered the names of 150 persons and groups on whom files had been kept...
...Over the years, they had tried to organize for such unions as the Hospital Workers Local 1199, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employes, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers, the United Mine Workers, the Operating Engineers, Teamsters, and Tobacco Workers...
...Taylor says the Coalition intends to continue monitoring intelligence-gathering practices to make sure the ordinance is actually observed...
...This is a crisis in the true sense...
...Now that Seattle has broken the ice," says Taylor, "it's going to be a lot easier for other places to follow suit...
...Since grave abuses by the FBI were the occasion for this new legislation, Kennedy's remark constituteda curious endorsement for the bill...
...As intelligence targets reacted with outrage, the police sought to soothe an anxious citizenry...
...Mike Nathan worked more than forty hours every week at a clinic that served mostly low-income blacks...
...The Coalition assembled forty- two individuals and groups to file a lawsuit seeking access to their intelligence files under provisions of the state's Public Disclosure Act...
...In April 1978, Mayor Charles Royer—who had himself briefly been the subject of an intelligence file while working as a newscaster on a local television station—introduced legislation to regulate intelligence-gathering activities...
...The state's investigation was confined to an inquest held in secret and a grand jury inquiry that never got off the ground...
...They have all, for example, received a number of waste deliveries that have been poorly packaged and shipped...
...Human lives should never be used as bargaining chips...
...According to Heyward Shealy, director of the Bureau of Radiological Health of South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control, Chem-Nuclear readily agreed to reduce by half the amount of wastes at its Barnwell site...
Vol. 44 • January 1980 • No. 1
