The New York Law School
October 18, 1985
Vol. III No. 1
Carter
Rips Reagan's
By BOB GOLDMAN the decreasing number of Soviet Jews perand GLEN GENTILE mitted to .ernigrate as evidence of "IethFormer President Jimmy Carter at- argy" in the Reaganadministration'sattitude tacked the Reagan administration's human towards Soviet human rights violations. rights policies at the first Mario Biaggi He said that we have both a right and a lecture, held at New York Law School last duty to protest the treatment of Anatoly Friday afternoon. Scharansky. the Soviet dissident, even The former President, who was awarded though he may be guilty under Soviet law. an honorary doctor of laws degree from Carter said that it is unacceptable to say NYLS, chided the Reagan administra- that "all Palestinians are terrorists" or that tions "silence." on human rights in both "we should only allow whites to vote in the domestic and international arenas. "In South Africa" because these ideas stigmarecent years, we've heard a lot of silence tize an entire people, and are incompatible coming out of Washington;" he said. with freedom. democracy and justice. The Justice Department has always deHe quoted Jacobo Timmerman, the Arfended the rights of minorities and human gentinian newspaper editor, who was imrights from the Roosevelt administratio;'-prisoned during the reign of the military through his own tenure in office, Carter junta in Argentina. "In the beginning," said. "That has now changed. The Justice said Carter, "when Timmerman thought Department is now more likely to be on the he was to be executed, he said there was a other side. That disturbs me very much," great silence.and this silence could transsaid Carter, adding that his administration form any nation into an accomplice." was on the side of affirmative action pro"The United States can create a deafgrams and equality. ening silence;" Carter said, as he drew an The former President, who is now a analogy to the silence of the United States distinguished professor at Emory Univer- in the face of Nazi atrocities committed sity, said the Reagan administration's pol- during World War II. "And the Jews icy of "constructive engagement" in died," Carter added. South Africa has become identified with "Because we are free, we can never "quiet approval" of apartheid.. He added remain indifferent to violations of human his daughter, Amy, was recently arrested freedom elsewhere;" he said. outside of the South African embassy for Carter said we need maximum efforts protesting apartheid. from every citizen who is concerned about In an allusion to Reagan's "evil em- human rights and justice. He called New pire" speech, Carter said that calling the York Law School "a great law school," Soviet Union "evil" was an example of and he said the school should be a leader in stigmatizing an entire people. He cited the areas of human rights and justice.
Rights
Policies
President Carter speaking at news conference, flanked by (I. to r.) Dean Emeritus Daniel Gutman, Rep. Mario Biaggi, and Dean James Simon. At a press conference following the lecture, Carter applauded the U.S. Navy's interception of the Egyptian plane which carried the four seajackers of the Achille Lauro, the recently hijacked Italian tourist boat. The plane was captured as it flew over Italy. Carter congratulated Reagan for his success in capturing the terrorists whom he called "criminals against international law." He said he opposed any efforts to extradite the terrorists from Italy because Italy was in a better position than the United States to handle the case "more rapidly
and expeditiously.'' Carter said that because of the many protections afforded criminal defendants in the United States, the terrorists would be brought to justice more swiftly in Italy. Carter said President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt acted in "the best interests" of all parties when he made a deal with the seajackers that would have given them safe passage out of Egypt for the safe return of the passengers. Mubarak based his decision on the information he had at the time, that there were no casualties on board the continued on page 3
Leuci,"Prince of the City," Speaks at NYLS By Nick DeMarco Bob Leuci, once known as the "Prince of the City," a New York cop who reported on fellow officers in blue, spoke before a fascinated audience of New York Law School students on October 7. Mr.
Bob Leuci
Leuci is now a novelist and critic of the criminal justice system. As a long-time friend of Professor Robert Blecker, a criminal law specialist who currently teaches "Lawyers and the System of Justice" for upperclass evening students, Bob Leuci has appeared freqently at NYLS. He took advantage of Professor Bleeker's offer to address an ethics class and other interested students about the dark period of his career as a New York City cop on the beat. Blecker noted from the outset that lawyers are just as subject to the erosion of the criminal justice system as the police who work within it. The broad similarities include the far-reaching power available to both cops and attorneys, and the relatively unsupervised, often unrestrained nature of
their professions. Leuci served only to embellish that image, serving up stories of his days at the Police Academy and his later on-the-job training. While his stories were fascinating, Leuci himself is an enigma. His career as a cop, and the events leading up to his "coming clean" before the authorities, have been documented in a best selling book and major motion picture. Why he turned himself and his "buddies" in remains a mystery to Blecker and others. Leuci can be seen as a living embodiment of the ethical dilemma of what he calls the "erosion process. " He postulates that "you don't rub off on the street, the street rubs off on you." continued on page 3
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