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...scope, and the current debate in this state over absolute versus partial shields is typical. Several bills are coming before Congress this session, with comparable variance of language and terms. The foremost is a two-tiered approach set forth in a bill proposed by Senator Lowell P. Weicker (R.-Conn.) which would create an "absolute" immunity from forced disclosure by newsmen before grand juries, legislative committees and government agencies, and a severely limited immunity before open courts trying major criminal cases...
Army Captain George Wanat was more bitter than most about his captivity with the Viet Cong. He told his father in Waterford, Conn., "I'd kill those bastards if I ever saw them again." He reported that he had been kept in solitary confinement for five months "in a bamboo cage full of ants and poisonous snakes." His diet, he said, was rice and pork fat, rationed at one bowl a day, plus some water...
Burghardt, the estranged son of an educator who is now president of a community college in Hartford, Conn., went to Deerfield Academy, then Rutgers, began acting in Shakespeare, later taught in the drama department at Antioch. His draft troubles began in 1966 when he applied for a conscientious-objector classification. His claim was rejected on grounds of insufficient "credibility and sincerity." The next year he was sentenced to five years (the average term is two years), but various appeals kept him out of prison until November...
Burghardt was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., where he became friendly with another prisoner, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan. The two jogged together and discussed the theater and Viet Nam. In Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes, Berrigan wrote about Burghardt: "This young black resister...had been an actor and TV personality...He came in like a Roman candle, with all his talents exploding around...
...only three legitimate ways to get on the air. RCA Promotion Director Frank Mancini sums them up: "Hit the secondaries, hassle the Top 40 people, or do both." The likeliest route to success is through the secondaries?the hot stations in such medium-sized cities as Youngstown, Ohio; Hartford. Conn.; and San Diego, which tend to have more flexible program directors than the rigidly scheduled big-league stations. There are plenty of valid forms of blandishment, and some of them are quite inventive. One promo man in Cleveland dressed up in a Superman costume and climbed a fire escape...