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...First Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, to agree to answer three questions before a Boston grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers case or face penalties for civil contempt...
...three disputed questions are the remains of an original 14 brought to the court by the government. Earlier this year, Boston's Federal District Court found Popkin in contempt for not answering seven of the 14 questions: a later ruling by the appeals court lowered that number to three...
...June ruling, no effort has yet been made to recall either Caldwell or Pappas for questioning. The reason, Caldwell speculates, is loss of official interest in the Panthers and a wish to avoid controversy with the press in an election year. Branzburg is under a six-month state contempt sentence, but he now works at the Detroit Free Press and refuses to return to Kentucky...
...wiretapping in the case of Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government. The government's action, which was required by a July 13 ruling by the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, opened the way for a revision of that court's earlier finding that Popkin was in contempt for refusing to answer three questions before a Boston grand jury...
Popkin has been battling since May 3 the latest in a series of contempt citations, appeals and reversals for his refusal to answer certain questions before a Boston grand jury investigating the leaking of the Pentagon Papers to the press. The May 3 ruling by the Appeals Court found Popkin in contempt on three counts and reversed the remaining four counts found by Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity...