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...task: to plant sensing devices near an enemy supply trail so that "smart" bombs can home in on military convoys. He knows how to survive in the bush and is not afraid of spiders or the Viet Cong. But his motivation is uncertain, and this earns him the contempt of his partner, a hard-case Regular Army major named Price...
Shaking his head, Gesell declared that he would hold an immediate hearing on who had custody of the papers "so that I can consider use of the contempt statute." In a strange judicial scene, St. Clair, who earlier had been grinning and sometimes winking at Ehrlichman, was then allowed to question him. "Now those files were made by you on company ... I mean, Government time, is that correct? Is it fair to say that some items on that pad affect the national security? Does your attorney have security clearance...
...accept that." The judge then announced that he would soon issue another order. It is expected to give the President one more chance to provide the Ehrlichman files. If he fails to comply, Gesell could hold a hearing this week on whether the President should be cited for contempt of court. Presumably, no attempt would be made to fine or imprison the President for contempt, but such a citation would have an adverse public impact on him and would be weighed as another possible article of impeachment...
...attempts to stop publication of the Pentagon papers in the Washington Post in 1971, but sided with Nixon in ruling that the Senate Watergate committee had not shown a sufficient need for presidential tape recordings to override Nixon's claim of Executive privilege. If he cites Nixon for contempt in the Ellsberg case, Gesell, 63, may become as well known as his father, the late child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell...
...Brigadoon, Compulsion) and film (The Roaring Twenties, Yankee Doodle Dandy) actor; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Accused of Communist affiliations, Sullivan was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Sullivan refused to testify, invoking the First Amendment freedoms of speech and assembly. Indicted for contempt of Congress, he was acquitted on a technicality...