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...university in their refusal to answer questions. The rationale of those who used the Fifth Amendment was best stated in a letter to the CRIMSON from New York lawyer Leonard B. Boudin on March 19. "...In refusing to cooperate with the Velde and Jenner committees, the witnesses are asserting their constitutional right to freedom of speech, belief, conscience and assembly. The Supreme Court has not consented to hear such First Amendment claims in recent cases involving congressional investigations. That is not a reason for failing to assert rights which the individual citizen believes that he possesses...
...upon the First Amendment may not avoid a committee citation for contempt. Hence, so many witnesses in recent years have relied upon the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that persons may not be required to act as witnesses against themselves. It is particularly appropriate to assert the privilege here since it had its origins in the protection of political and religious dissidence in the Puritan period in England...
Asked whether he wished to assert his rights under the Fifth Amendment, Hawkins said he did not. This leaves him open to a possible contempt citation...
...though he has no son. Coselli does have a wife, however: the nurse Jany, who has come to work in the hospital to be near him. Tangled together in their nightmares and obsessions, Bébert and Coselli make their escape from the hospital, frantically trying to assert themselves as free...
...believes that gravitation (i.e., relativity) is the place to start when trying to explain the universe, but he admits that he does not yet have the whole answer. No one has found an experimental method of proving his unified theory. "Nevertheless," he says hopefully, "I consider it unjustified to assert, a priori, that such a theory is unable to cope with the atomistic character of energy...