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...English case involves three small, militantly leftist magazines held in contempt for printing the name of an Intelligence Officer. Called Colonel B in court, the officer had testified against two left-wing journalists charged under the British O.S.A. with receiving unauthorized information. Four members of Parliament later deliberately uttered his real name in a nationally broadcast debate. Radio commentators, fearing prosecution, were careful not to repeat the name. The magazines were hand-slapped with small fines (less than $1,000 each), and much of the press ridiculed the whole farce...
Like Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Past, Richard Nixon [July 17] has returned to the public arena to haunt us. My contempt for Nixon has dissipated. He is a pathetic, flawed character. My disdain is reserved for the boobs, yahoos and Neanderthals of Leslie County, Ky., who yelled and whooped and hailed Nixon as if he were a conquering hero...
...reporter seemed to be the chief victims of the collision. With Jascalevich's trial in its fifth month, Judge William J. Arnold demanded Farber's notes for private inspection? apparently to determine whether the shield law applied. When Farber refused, both he and the Times were cited for contempt...
...fanatic or an absolutist, declared Farber during his contempt trial before Judge Theodore Trautwein. But, he added, "I believe the First Amendment means what it says about freedom of the press." Editorialized the Times: "A court, no matter how benign, is to us an arm of the state. A promise to protect a source is a promise to protect it against any third party...
...Trautwein to punish Farber, 40, and the Times that he began handing down sentences before pronouncing them guilty. Realizing his mistake, Trautwein declared sheepishly, "I'm putting the cart before the horse." Then he slapped both the paper and the reporter with stiff coercive civil and punitive criminal contempt sentences: a fine of $5,000 a day for the Times and jail for Farber until the notes are coughed up, plus a $100,000 fine for the Times and another six months in jail for Farber as well as fines against him totaling...