The American Bar Association has found some freelance work for Bernardine Dohrn, the former Weather Underground terrorist and fugitive. Ms. Dohrn, who now heads the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University, is scheduled to lecture a roomful of lawyers at the ABA's annual meeting in New York's Waldorf-Astoria on July 7. She will not be lecturing about the manufacture of bombs, a subject on which Dohrn's expertise was once so acute that the FBI placed her on its most wanted list in the 1970s. Dohrn will not be lecturing about the murder of policemen, though here, too, she presumably knows quite a lot; years ago she was sentenced to seven months in jail for refusing to cooperate in a cop-killer trial. Nor will Dohrn be lecturing on the Tate-LaBianca murders (Dohrn once gave a speech praising Charles Manson as a "right on" revolutionary).
No. Ms. Dohrn is scheduled to appear on a panel devoted to "Elian Gonzalez and the Forgotten Children in Immigration Proceedings." No doubt her expertise in the matter arises from her long sympathies with the tyrant who rules the country Elian will soon have the misfortune to live in.