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Thus assured of the wisdom of his action, Judge Boldt last week dealt with the "Seattle Seven"-the young protesters accused of conspiring to damage a federal courthouse in Seattle last winter. After declaring a mistrial in the Tacoma proceedings, Judge Boldt summarily convicted the seven of contempt, and ordered them to serve one or more six-month jail terms. Then he adamantly refused to grant bail to the defendants...
...point during the contempt hearings, anarchy erupted. Three raucous defendants hurled a flag at the bench and screamed: "That's the flag that ought to be there next to you-the Nazi flag!" The disrupters even tore up their contempt citations...
...MEETING WITH KING: I got a wire from the Reverend Doctor King in New York. He was getting ready to get the Nobel Prize-he was the last one in the world who should ever have received it. He wired asking to see me.* I held him in complete contempt because of the things he said and because of his conduct. First I felt I shouldn't see him, but then I thought he might become a martyr if I didn't. King was very suave and smooth. He sat right there where you're sitting...
...when the new trial opened in Tacoma last week, there were clear differences. For one, U.S. District Judge George Boldt, 66, seems more detached and judicious than Julius Hoffman. His authority has also been strengthened by last spring's Supreme Court decision (Illinois v. Allen), which sanctioned contempt citations, gagging or expulsion of obstreperous defendants. But equally significant, the American Civil Liberties Union has chosen as attorney for two of the defendants a brilliant young U.C.L.A. law professor - Michael Tigar, 29 - who is abler and cooler than William Kunstler of Chicago fame...
...questioned whether "pride in having built a prosperous Australia is enough for you." He warned of "the temptation to be satisfied when material needs are fulfilled ... to forget life's moral and spiritual dimension ... to fill its place with counterfeits, some of which lead in the end to contempt for man." One symptom of such contempt, the Pope seemed to imply, might be Australia's discriminatory immigration restrictions. "Do not close your limited circle," he said at one point, "for the sake of selfish satisfaction...