A Weekend in Haiti  

Armed soldiers were not in evidence. At the airport it looked like business as usual. I was in Haiti as one of two observers sent by the Americas Watch Committee, which had set up an office in Port-au-Prince with the …



A Week in Warsaw  

Aside from the request at Passport Control that I remove my cap to confirm that I was the bald man in the picture, entering Warsaw was uneventful. I was waved through after having had to buy zlotys at the official …



Supreme Court Sets Back Union Democracy  

In 1959, Congress passed the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), also known as the Landrum-Griffin Act, after extensive hearings into the corruption, dictatorship, and racketeering that existed in some major unions. The congressional goal, according to Senator McClellan, chairman …



Civil Liberties & Confrontation Politics  

LET US BEGIN by referring to the new thinking of some civil libertarians. Classic threats to civil liberties from legal and illegal government repression are easily recognized. The threat to civil liberties from nihilistic eruptions of pseudopolitical groups are also …



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