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Show Al0 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Friday. July 25, 1997 Brennan Leaves Legacy Of Liberalism @ Continued from A-1 liberal colleague, praised Brennan. “He played a majorrole in shaping American constitutional law. He was also a warm-hearted colleague to those of us who served with him.” Appointed in 1956 by President number in Supreme Court histo- ership and his character have safeguarded freedom and widnedthecircle of equality for evry single one of us.” School in 1931, eee eer CHICAGO TRIBUNE RIO DE JANEIRO — A fouryear investigation into rumors that President Alberto Fujimori aS an attemptto further blacken the president's imageat a time when his popularity ratings haye president from his job if they are of removing Fujimorifrom office could prompt a military coup. fered a broken hip and, during his rehabilitation, contracted pneumonia. ton, Va. Long after the departure of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1969, Brenthe turbulent years that trans- served as “a unifying influence on the bench and in the conference room.” Years later, Brennan frequently found himself at odds with the less activist court headed by Warren’s replacement, Chief Justice Warren Burger. In speeches and writings he urged state courts “to thrust themselves into a position of prominence in the struggle te protect the people of our nation from governmental intrusions on formed American society. It was the high court in the late 1950s their freedoms.” Nevertheless, Brennan was in and 1960s that eventually changed the nation’s traditional ways of thinking about civil rights, personal liberty and judicial power. If Justices Hugo Black and Wil- the majority as the Burger court defeated attempts to permanently shelve busing as a remedy in school desegregation cases and upheld the right of women to liam Douglas used their experi- abortion. Brennan Jr. on April 25, 1906, the quist, a conservative who often disagreed with the views of his second of eight children in an Irish-Catholie family in Newark, Orthodox Church Warns Yeltsin of people in Russia — which would Seriously complicate the movementof oursociety toward peace and concord,” the patriarch said Religious Rift Russian legislators back the bill, it has drawn strong opposition from Pope John Paul II and the United States, which has threat- enedto cut aid to Russiaif it betomes law. Orthodox leaders ar- gued that the Roman Catholic Church would face no restrictions, because it could prove 15 years’ presence in Russia. But that did not mollify Catholic leadprs, who had expressed alarm at thebill and relief at Yeltsin’s reexe ofit. pseudo-missionaries.” Other Orthodox leaders argued that the proposed law was fair, becauseit gave religious groups sufficient loopholes of the sort the church was forged to use during Soviet times. Then,under the severe restrictions of an officially atheist state, the church managedto maintain a quasi-official status and some moralweightin Soviet society. “In the Soviet times . .. we did Fonal out that it is unconstituional. individuals doit for us.” Alexy is head of the world’s ® “A final melecfion of the law on e freedom of worship might Jead to tensidn between the authorities and the majority of the and an outspoken critic of the tactics used by Sen. Joseph McCaroes aee of communists and sympathizers. ing confirmation for the U_S. Supreme Court, MecCarthy subjected Brennan, a N.J. His father, an Irish immi- of Peru is constitutionally ibile to hold office has aie documents that could force the authenticated, opposition media i registry and the manifest of the boat on which the president's Japaneseborn parents arrived in Peru, suggest Fujimori was born m Japan, making him ineligible to hold Pe- ru's —mecy. The documents, uncovered by a gm for the Raton Carmspiracy.” Despite health problems, Brennan continued in retirement to appear to canting longstanding rumors about Fujimori’s birth and could lead to the president’s removal — up regularly at his office from office. “The information that has been After the death of his first wife, ous,” said Javier Diez Canseco, a Marjorie, in 1982, he married leading opposition congressman. Members of Fujimori’s major- MaryFowler,his secretary. shown to the public is very seri- plunged to their lowest level in seven years, and warned thattalk Perhaps the strongest of the documents unveiled Thursdayisa photo of what was described as an immigration card into Peru “in 1934 signed by the president’s mother. The card shows that she entered Peru with two childrén | named Juana and Alberto. Researchers say the card his | since disappeared from immigfation files. Another document, described @ copy of the passenger mani- fest of the boat on which Fuji- family name, incompletely coyered, ends in an i and Fujimori’s family does not appear elsewhere on thelist. Today's Levitz. You'll love it! Home \{akers do-religious cults and foreign not have the right to buy houses — so we bought them in an individual’s name,” Metropolitan Kir- » Alexysaid Yeltsin's rejection of She law had “caused sorrow” mong the faithful in Russia. moved up to the New Jersey Supreme Court. He had a reputation as a leading reformer of the state courts Soviet campaigns to “protect” the nation from “pernicious” Western influences, Alexy argued that the bill would “protect the individual and the society from the vagaries of the destructive pseu- The measure spiked by Yeltsin bign the measureif it landed on his desk again, but attach a letter appointed a state judge and ity in a statement. With ‘rhetoric reminiscent of pverwhelming margin. Yeltsin said Wednesday that he would had passed Parliament by an After a decade in private practice and service in the Army. he was He was born William Joseph ence as NewDealers in the 1930s : Continued from A-1 mi ‘ : in Congress called the new re- practice during the Depression to mold the court into a major policy-making body, Brennan helped give the Warren era muchofits ' Chief Justice William Rehn- Will Uncovered Documents: Force Ouster of Fujimori? for his “buoyant spirit,” describ- nan remained the torchbearer of dent Clinton said. “The force of his ideas, the strength of his lead- Brennan from the University of Pennsylvania in Brennan in a law review article to challenge the government through thecourts. “His devotion to the Bill of and a member of the City Council. ing him as a “prodigious worker and a master craftsman” who A Supreme Court spokeswoman said Brennandied at the Manor Care nursing homein Arling- Rights inspired millions of Americans and countless young lawstudents, including myself,” Presi- court. Warren once paid tribute to the fires at a brewery, but rose to become a prominent labor leader 1990, at age 84, because of poor ry. In his opinions, he set out the landmark “one-person, one-vote” principleof political reapportionment, enhancedfree-press rights and broadened the rights of any person, including the poor, men- tally handicapped or imprisoned, “coalition builder” on the Warren grant, worked first as a stoker of Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican wholater bemoaned thechoice, Brennanretired from the court in health. Last year Brennan suf- presidents, wrote more than 1,200 opinions, the second highest final shape and substance in his manyopinions. He was tenacious and Plain-spoken, and widely reputed to be the leading the gi gantic inventory red uction ill said. “Wecould not defend our rights in court — so we had good largest Orthodox church, with an estimated 80 million followers. There are 15 patriarchs 7 Orthodox faith. 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