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...Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two reporters were held in contempt of a U.S. District Court order barring them from covering a public civil rights hearing...
...protesters and the government have so far shown remarkable restraint and have avoided violence. Only when restless students from the capital's Haile Selassie University ventured outside the campus last week, to ignite an effigy of Endalkachew and demand "free speech" and "free press," were they attacked by baton-wielding police. Even then, few were injured or arrested. Ethiopian students studying in the Soviet Union also demonstrated. They occupied the Ethiopian embassy in Moscow for three hours and demanded that the Emperor abdicate...
...Reign. Garvin can expect to become chairman when Jamieson reaches mandatory retirement at 65 in August 1975. Since Garvin will be only 53 then, he will presumably preside for a dozen years, about twice as long as usual. Garvin, a Virginia Polytechnic Institute engineer and a graduate of the Baton Rouge, La., refinery, which is a prolific breeding ground of Exxon leaders, once ran Exxon's chemical operations. He confesses to "a feeling of frustration" in trying to explain the complexities of the energy problem...
Another source of friction has been the "apostolic succession," the doctrine that the legitimacy of a Christian church depends on direct linkage with the first Apostles. Catholics, in fact, long interpreted the idea as some sort of ecclesiastical relay race, in which a baton has been passed from bishop to bishop all through Christian history. The agreement affirms the practice of bishops ordaining other bishops, but suggests that "historical continuity" in a church is ensured by its fidelity to "the teaching and mission of the apostles...
...Baton Rouge case, the Nixon Supreme Court majority allowed a Federal judge to cite reporters for contempt because they wrote about an open hearing...