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Constitutional experts agree that CBS had a legal right to broadcast the tapes, but there was debate on whether it was ethical and responsible to do so. On balance, it was, says Columbia University Law Professor Benno Schmidt. "The case is, obviously, highly newsworthy, and it deals with a matter of proper general public concern, namely a criminal offense of some importance for the public to know about and to be able to evaluate...
...matter of public record. Wrote the judge: "The 'revelations' of the Ford memoirs were not such news, 'hot' or otherwise, as to permit the use of. . . copyrighted material." Legal researchers generally endorsed Owen's decision, but several agreed with Columbia University Law Professor Benno Schmidt that it was "an excruciatingly close case." Said Schmidt: "If the law were reinterpreted to permit the maximum information to get to the public, the Nation would win." Navasky, unrepentant, agreed. Said he: "The court made a decision that intrudes on journalistic discretion, and we intend to appeal...
...created a subsidiary that acts as an employment agency specializing in finding jobs for spouses. Another Connecticut-based relocation firm, Home Buyers Assistance Corp., has developed the Job Information Bank, a computerized catalogue of likely employment openings for spouses with about 150 companies in Connecticut and New Jersey. Explains Benno Curtis, senior vice president of Home Buyers Assistance: "If AT&T brings in John, then maybe GTE has an opening for Jenny." The job bank has helped more than 50 wives with their job search...
...decision filled many lawyers -and other U.S. citizens-with misgivings. "Nobody likes Agee very much," said Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. "But in its haste to punish Agee, the court wrote an overbroad and ill-conceived opinion." Added American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Mark Lynch: "There's nothing in the opinion that limits the ruling to former CIA agents. Spock, Coffin, Fonda, Hayden, Ramsey Clark-all these critics speaking around the world could have had their passports taken away...
...York Financier Benno Schmidt, who headed the library committee, summed it up in his speech presenting the library to the university and the National Archives, which will oversee it. "The New York Times may find [Ford's] achievements modest as they suggested in their editorial of Jan. 13, 1977," said Schmidt. "But I'll tell you, they don't seem modest today...