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...shadow line between architecture and decoration. These delicate panels of rice paper stretched on lacquered frames, held together by paper or leather hinges, were the remote ancestors of today's plebeian room dividers and office partitions. Their name, byōbu, means "protection from wind." From the 7th century, when the first byōbu were introduced from China, the art of screen painting absorbed the best talents in Japan. Perhaps because, being in everyday domestic use, they were more liable to damage than scrolls, there are comparatively few fine examples in the hands of U.S. collectors...
...five witnesses appealed late last year to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused to reverse their convictions. The court ruled that the First Amendment did not protect them even from questions which did violate their rights to privacy, free speech, and free association. A Grand Jury's right to collect evidence is greater than a witness's First Amendment rights, it ruled in effect...
Several months earlier, the 7th Circuit Court had ruled that requiring New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell to appear before a Grand Jury that was making a general investigation of the Panthers would drive "a wedge of distrust between the media and the militants." Thus, it would have a "chilling effect" on the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press. The judges in that case held that only compelling national interest could be held to justify an invasion of the First Amendment rights of free speech, association, and press. But they held that their ruling was a narrow...
Later, North Vietnamese and NLF spokesmen said the 7th Battalion of the 17th Calvary Regiment and "several battalions" from the 5th Mechanized Division and the 101st Airborne Division are operating in Laos. The United States called the accusations "all nonsense...
...soldiers, members of the 3rd Platoon, Delta troop, 7th Battalion, 17th Air Calvary, declined to use their names because they feared disciplinary action by their superiors...