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...questions concerning his name, occupation and place of residence, but refused to answer when asked if he knew Susan Sheehan, who writes for the New Yorker: her husband. Neil Sheehan, a reporter for the New York Times who wrote articles for that paper about the Pentagon Papers: and Daniel Ellsberg '52, who has admitted giving the Pentagon study to the press...
...attempt to suppress the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe from printing the Pentagon papers and subsequent legal action against Daniel Ellsberg for releasing the papers...
...continuing public affairs series include The Advocates, a mock-trial show grappling with nettlesome subjects like last week's "Should the Government drop charges against Dr. Daniel Ellsberg?" Top-level advocates are always on the dock (the premiere about Ellsberg featured ex-Senator Ernest Gruening and Professor Noam Chomsky), but in the past the program has as often sensationalized or trivialized public debate as it has illuminated...
...Ellsberg described American war policy as that of a "threat" against the North Vietnamese and national liberation forces. "The U.S. threatens to destroy Hanoi, Haiphong and the Red River dykes unless the Vietnamese capitulate. The U.S. then depopulates enormous areas of Laos and Cambodia to show North Vietnam that the American threat is credible," Ellsberg said...
...Ellsberg referred to his wife's reaction when she first read the Pentagon Papers: "This is the language of torturers." Ellsberg then recounted the story that when Henry Kissinger '50 is criticized for American bombing policy, he responds by replying, "What you are telling me is that the North Vietnamese are the first people in the history of the world not to have a breaking point...