Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been charged in a libel suit. Some have been labeled CIA agents; others have been reported "expelled" after leaving the country on routine transfers. At last week's trial, however, Clark observed that nearly all of the 22 American journalists now at work in Moscow were outside the courtroom. Says he: "As long as American correspondents are here, lawsuits, surveillance and other forms of harassment are not going to change their coverage of what they see as a part of the Soviet scene...
...momentous decision came quietly, for it is never known exactly when the court will hand down an historic ruling. One traditional clue, though, is the appearance of the Justices' wives, so there was a rustle of anticipation in the crowded courtroom just before 10 last Wednesday morning at the sight of Cecelia Marshall, Marjorie Brennan, Mary Ann Stewart and Elizabeth Stevens. The wives had arrived...
...exactly 10, Chief Justice Warren Burger stepped from behind the red velvet curtains and entered the courtroom. Eight other black-robed Supreme Court Justices followed as the marshal of the court sang out: "Oyez, oyez, oyez!" and invoked the blessing of God on the "United States and this honorable court." The Justices seemed more solemn than usual...
Burger began by asking Potter Stewart to announce a routine decision on a pensions benefit case, then announced a minor decision himself. Finally it came, third on the list: Case No. 76-811. Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke. As a hush enveloped the courtroom, Associate Justice Lewis Powell, a frail, bespectacled Virginian, began to speak in an emotionless monotone: "Perhaps no case in my memory has had so much media coverage. We speak today with a notable lack of unanimity. I will try to explain how we divided...
...issue in an Alexandria, Va., courtroom last week was whether top CIA officials could hold an ex-spy to his written agreement to let them censor anything that he wrote about his undercover experiences. Testified CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "If he is able to get away with this, it will prove to other people that we have no control." In other words, the agency wanted to chill into silence other potential telltale spooks...