Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Progressive's lawyers responded that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in the 1971 Pentagon papers case that prior restraint of publication is unconstitutional. (That case was the only previous time a U.S. court had been asked to grant prior restraint based solely on grounds of national security...
...meant that the plant was negligent in handling the potent metal, which is used in atomic weapons. Plutonium is considered some 20,000 times more deadly than the venom from a cobra if ingested, and even minute quantities can cause cancer years later. As testimony opened in a federal court in Oklahoma City last week, Dr. John Gofman, a scientist who has done pioneering work with plutonium, testified that Silkwood's lungs had contained almost twice as much of the dangerous metal as the amount that can induce cancer. "Anyone exposed to that amount of plutonium is married...
...family intends to show that the papers Silkwood was carrying on the night of her death would have demonstrated the company's carelessness. Lawyer Gerald Spence claimed in court that Silkwood wanted to "tell the public" that a startling 40 Ibs. of plutonium was missing from the plant. Spence also said she had X rays of fuel rods that had been retouched by the company to conceal faulty seals. Her point: a defective rod could cause a catastrophic accident. The family also intends to call former company employees, including a plant manager, to testify to these and other mishandlings...
...Supreme Court Conference--Kenneth Clark, Thomas Atkins, Martin Kilson, Robert Segal, Myron Farber, and Robert Bonin; ARCO forum, Kennedy School of Government...
...Supreme Court Conference--ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government...