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...example-an employee who is directly involved risks prosecution by remaining silent. A little-known federal law, on the books since 1790, compels persons who possess information about a felony to report it. In theory, federal and state laws against conspiracy and complicity apply to workers who aid and abet any illegal act committed in the name of a corporation. In a time when paid informers are in widespread use (see THE LAW), the legal position of employees who speak up will become an increasingly important question...
Corcoran, in recommending that the city not pass the program and wait instead for Nixon's new Manpower Program, was proposing a move that would abet this tendency. The Manpower program that Corcoran expects Congress and Nixon to enact would take the control of local training programs out of the neighborhoods and give it instead to the mayors, where it would be subject to city bureaucratic maneuverings and political control by the Nixon administration...
...things stand now, there is a good chance that Nixon will be given all the basic anticrime legislation he wants-and perhaps more. The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering a bill that would make it a crime to "willfully advocate, abet, advise or teach the duty, necessity, desirability or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the Government of the United States or the government of any state." Other proposals would provide for imprisonment of anyone who urges "the desirability or necessity of urban terrorism" or who belongs to an organization that does. Still another would make it a federal crime...
...popped up-uninvited but welcomed-at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa., to preach peace. The renegade reverend, who last April was supposed to start a 3½-year sentence for destroying draft records, urged the churchgoers to "refuse to pay taxes, and to aid and abet and harbor people like myself so that a solid wall of conscience confronts the warmakers." Before federal agents got wind of his whereabouts, he got away...
...With regard to the Supreme Court decision to enlarge the grounds for the exemption of conscientious objectors [June 29], it seems to this reader quite proper that no man should be compelled to kill, or to abet killing, in violation of his moral code...