Word: contempts
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...refuge no fewer than 42 times in the Fifth Amendment protection against selfincrimination. Carter ruled, however, that she had to answer questions about the year because of her previous testimony. He warned: "If you persist to refuse to answer, Miss Hearst, it will be necessary to cite you for contempt...
...intelligence agency abuses to the Village Voice, a Manhattan weekly, he had no idea it would come to this. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly known as the ethics committee, last week began its preliminary inquiry into whether the CBS correspondent should be cited for contempt or otherwise disciplined by Congress. The Justice Department was pressing a parallel investigation to see if he had violated federal espionage statutes. CBS suspended Schorr from all reporting duties, and he began spending long hours with his network-paid attorney. As a tense and weary Schorr told a group of colleagues...
...proposals would exempt journalists from prosecution. What worries many reporters is that if they receive embargoed information from a government source, they could be declared witnesses to a possible crime; they could then be called before a grand jury to divulge their sources and, if they refused, jailed for contempt. Predicts Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "Not a hell of a lot of newspapers are going to take a chance, knowing what lies in store...
...vote of 269 to 115, the House ordered its twelve-member ethics committee to investigate the "Pike papers" leak. Conceivably, the committee could recommend to the House almost anything, from no action against Schorr at all to removal of his accreditation to the House press gallery. A citation for contempt of Congress is an outside possibility...
...lifelong fascination with love and sex, but he never really trusted love. At one point he wrote, "A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love witm her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred." On a bleak fall day in 1948, he brooded on how to cope with life: "There is nothing anyone can do. It's something that has to be done alone. Even with women, and that's good, there is largely no companionship except for a little while." Steinbeck...