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...Nixon tried to separate himself from the school-integration issue, noting that "the recent decision of the Supreme Court [approving busing in order to racially balance schools] presents some more problems." He echoed Southern feelings about the North on racial matters when he said, "I have nothing but utter contempt for the double hypocritical standard of Northerners who look at the South and point the finger and say, 'Why don't those Southerners do something about their race problem...
...likely to be reversed on appeal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet laid down rules for obstreperous lawyers, it held last year that a judge has broad powers in dealing with unruly defendants. He can have them gagged or bound, expelled from his courtroom or cited for contempt. For ill-mannered lawyers, though, a judge's contempt power has remained just about the only censure. And as in the conspiracy trial of the Chicago Seven, a few flamboyant attorneys have not hesitated to challenge...
...defendant repeated that she did not make or approve the telephone calls. She submitted a letter from her House Master who said that after talking to the defendant, he felt she did not make the calls and that she held the concept of harassing telephone calls "in utter contempt...
...Seale, who founded the Black Panther party with Huey P. Newton in 1966, remains in custody, still facing a four-year contempt of court sentence stemming from the Chicago Eight conspiracy trial...
Boudin argued a motion several weeks ago calling on Judge Dixon to dismiss the charges and hold several government attorneys in contempt following the government's release of letters allegedly written by two of the defendants...