Word: contemptable
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WHATEVER ITS OTHER EFFECTS on The New York Times's fortunes, the New York newspaper strike appears to have spared the paper the embarassment of reporting recent events in the M.A. Farber case. Farber, the Times reporter who, along with his paper, was cited for contempt of court last month for refusing to permit Judge Isidore Trautwein to examine his notes in camera, admitted in court early this month that he had accepted a $75,000 advance on a book he was preparing on the Mario Jascalevitch murder case. He also admitted to having shown his notes...
...hope, as press reports suggest the State Department still does, that Pretoria will decide of its own accord to abandon this reprehensible course. But given South Africa's past history of cynical contempt for world opinion and the current political turmoil within the Nationalist party caused by the resignation of Vorster, such a magnanimous change of heart appears unlikely. In Afrikanerdom, politicians consolidate support by demonstrating that they are the meanest, toughest-skinned leaders in town, not by coming out on the dove side of hot issues...
...Senator will be asked to show cause why he should not be held in civil contempt at a hearing set for December...
Several hours after Brooke's wife filed her complaint, lawyers for Senator Brooke said they were "reluctantly" filing a counter complaint for contempt against Remigia Brooke...
...allowed to go unchallenged, this latest South African demonstration of contempt for international standards of justice can only result in the election of a Pretoria-controlled puppet regime and the continued political and economic subjugation of Namibia's black majority...