The Events Leading Up to the Trial

In the early hours of May 22, 1969, heavily armed police broke down the door of the New Haven headquarters of the Black Panther Party, arrested seven people, searched the premises and seized personal items, party literature and party funds. An eighth person was arrested in Bridgeport. All eight were held without bail until bench warrants for their arrest could be issued from the New Haven Superior Court. The arrests were front-page news in New Haven the next day. An eight-column headline in the New Haven Register identified those taken into custody as Panthers. They were alleged to have participated in the kangaroo trial and torture murder of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther from New York whose body had been discovered in a swamp near Middlefield, Connecticut, late in the afternoon of May 21

GI Justice in Vietnam: An Interview with the Lawyers Military Defense Committee

According to Catch-22, they can do anything you cannot stop them from doing. In a war zone, the range of anythings expands to diabolical extremes. The Lawyers Military Defense Committee originated to un-catch Gis snarled in court-martial prosecutions in Vietnam. Their mission has made the attorneys of LMDC about as popular with the U. S. Command as General Giap. Early this year one of LMDC attorneys representing a black GI charged with murder argued that the GI was being deprived due process of law because the U. S. Command prevented the LMDC from operating effectively. Because the command allowed no military telephone lines to the defense group, the attorney claimed, he had to try 233 times to complete just four telephone calls to his military co-counsel in the case. The command also refused to grant the group mail and priority travel privileges. A full-colonel military judge hearing the attorney\u27s claims said he agreed that the GI\u27s right to civilian counsel had been abridged but that\u27s just a fact of life in Vietnam. Since then things have gotten more pleasant for the LMDC. The difficulty of getting justice for servicemen in Vietnam remains. Several members of the group this fall discussed their difficulties and achievements in response to questions by the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. The following is a transcription of their discussion

Introduction

The decision of the California Supreme Court in August of 1971 in the case of Serrano v. Priest has unleashed an unprecedented fury of activity in the area of education finance reform. Advocates of reform in the systems by which states and localities finance public education had in 1969 been given what seemed to be an important setback when the United States Supreme Court refused to use the standard of educational need to declare invalid the Illinois system of financing public education. The result in that case, whose plaintiffs had based their claim for relief on the federal equal protection clause, required that a new approach be adopted in the effort to restructure education finance systems. That new approach had been begun in California in mid-1968, and with the aid of the negative guidance provided by the Supreme Court\u27s rejection of the educational need standard, the attorneys in the case were able to refine their approach to meet the judicial desire for manageable standards. The decision in Serrano v. Priest was the result of that effort. In the months since Serrano was decided, two other decisions have reaffirmed this approach to the education finance problem-Van Dusartz v. Hatfield, decided by a Minnesota District Court in mid-October, 1971, and Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School District, decided by a three-judge District Court panel in Texas on December 23. Dozens of similar lawsuits are pending in other jurisdictions around the country, and the number of such suits is still growing

Care and Repair of Clothing

This circular, created by the Agricultural Extension Service at South Dakota State College, provides information in regards to the care and repair of clothing in the Home Economics Department during 1922

Looking at Art

A young man, who is deaf-blind, explores a sculpture with a Support Service Provider (SSP). He uses tactile sign language and touch to explore and communicate about this piece of art

Introduction

The decision of the California Supreme Court in August of 1971 in the case of Serrano v. Priest has unleashed an unprecedented fury of activity in the area of education finance reform. Advocates of reform in the systems by which states and localities finance public education had in 1969 been given what seemed to be an important setback when the United States Supreme Court refused to use the standard of educational need to declare invalid the Illinois system of financing public education. The result in that case, whose plaintiffs had based their claim for relief on the federal equal protection clause, required that a new approach be adopted in the effort to restructure education finance systems. That new approach had been begun in California in mid-1968, and with the aid of the negative guidance provided by the Supreme Court\u27s rejection of the educational need standard, the attorneys in the case were able to refine their approach to meet the judicial desire for manageable standards. The decision in Serrano v. Priest was the result of that effort. In the months since Serrano was decided, two other decisions have reaffirmed this approach to the education finance problem-Van Dusartz v. Hatfield, decided by a Minnesota District Court in mid-October, 1971, and Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School District, decided by a three-judge District Court panel in Texas on December 23. Dozens of similar lawsuits are pending in other jurisdictions around the country, and the number of such suits is still growing

The Events Leading Up to the Trial

In the early hours of May 22, 1969, heavily armed police broke down the door of the New Haven headquarters of the Black Panther Party, arrested seven people, searched the premises and seized personal items, party literature and party funds. An eighth person was arrested in Bridgeport. All eight were held without bail until bench warrants for their arrest could be issued from the New Haven Superior Court. The arrests were front-page news in New Haven the next day. An eight-column headline in the New Haven Register identified those taken into custody as Panthers. They were alleged to have participated in the kangaroo trial and torture murder of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther from New York whose body had been discovered in a swamp near Middlefield, Connecticut, late in the afternoon of May 21

An anytime approach for on-line planning

In this paper we present a novel planning approach, based on well-known\ud techniques such as goal decomposition and heuristic planning, aimed at working in\ud highly dynamic environments with time constraints. Our contribution is a domain-independent\ud planner to incrementally generate plans under a deliberative framework\ud for reactive domains. The planner follows the anytime principles, i.e a first\ud solution plan can be quickly computed and the quality of the solution is improved\ud as time is available. Moreover, the fast computation of the sequential actions allows\ud the plan to start its execution before it is totally generated, thus giving rise to a\ud highly reactive planning system

Abortion and Health Care: A Discussion

No legislation can be shown to help women more than no law in the area of abortion. The type of legislation that Lamm and Davison are suggesting, and which they consider to be a liberal, reform bill, strikes me in reality as almost as oppressive to women as a very strict law such as the Connecticut law, which only permits abortion when necessary to save the woman\u27s life. Their bill is still controlling a woman\u27s decision, which is anathema to me