Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument for relocating reading period starts from the assumption that an overwhelming number of Harvard students do not, in fact, adequately keep up with their assigned reading. This results in the frantic last-minute burst of catching-up that recurs every reading-period--an orgy that leaves little time for reflection on the real meaning of the reading...
Another defense argument, advanced by James D. St. Clair, Coffin's attorney, is that the value of encouraging as open a public discussion as possible under the First Amendment overbalances the relatively harmless violation of draft regulations. (St. Clair himself, a lecturer on law at Harvard, is a veteran of liberal campaigns. He was one of Joseph Welch's chief aides in the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954.) To convict the five men, St. Clair said, would have the effect of "chilling" debate on the draft and the war by raising the menace of Federal prosecution...
Some evidence against the stepping-stone argument came a fortnight ago from Giordano's own Bureau of Narcotics. The number of known hard-drug addicts, said Giordano, increased from 59,720 in 1966 to 62,045 at the end of 1967, or 3%. Moreover, the number of new addicts detected rose only from 6,047 to 6,417. If only one in a hundred of the potheads had switched to heroin last year, the increase would have been far greater...
...imposed by a jury, the defendants were being made to risk a harsher punishment if they chose jury trial; by pleading guilty or by asking to be tried by a judge alone, they would not face death. Speaking for a 6-2 majority, Justice Potter Stewart found the argument persuasive. "The inevitable effect," he wrote, "is, of course, to discourage assertion of the Fifth Amendment right not to plead guilty and to deter exercise of the Sixth Amendment right to demand a jury trial...
Then, with the defendants and their battery of lawyers, relatives, and associates arrayed in a double semicircle around the courtroom, Ford listened to three hours of argument that the Jan. 5 indictment should be thrown...