Word: contempts
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...going to devote my Parting Shot to the war. The ultimate sacrifice for the poor wretches we are bombing in Southeast Asia. You notice a slight edge of self-contempt? It's not your imagination. And I can't begin to express the contempt I have for you, too, all of you. But especially you little motherfucking Henry Kissingers-on-the-make...
TUCSON, ARIZ., Jan. 31-Teri Volpin returned to jail here on Friday after a Federal judge found her guilty of contempt for her second refusal to answer broad questions about her activities before a Federal grand jury in Tuscon...
Volpin is one of 5 people from Venice, Calif. who have been convicted of contempt for refusing to answer questions before the Tuscon grand jury. The others are still serving their first contempt sentence...
...Supreme Court generally gives trial judges wide latitude in running their courtrooms-even to permitting the shackling, gagging or removal of obstreperous defendants. But last week the Justices unanimously curbed a judge's power to hand out contempt sentences for courtroom misbehavior. Using carefully uncritical language, the court held that a judge may cite a defendant at the moment of his contemptuous action, but that if the judge chooses to wait until the end of the trial, "it is generally wise where the marks of the unseemly conduct have left personal stings to ask a fellow judge to take...
...weeks ago, that Grand Jury indicted Philip Berrigan and six others for conspiracy to kidnap presidential assistant Henry A. Kissinger '50 and blow up heating systems in Federal buildings. One of the alleged co-con-aspirators who wasn't indicted-Sister Jogues Egan-was just convicted of contempt for refusing to testify before that Grand Jury...