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...another publication two weeks ago, the precedent of prior restraint whenever authorities feel the urge to suppress publicly available information has unfortunately been established. Aside from the violence done to the First Amendment, this attempt to reclassify information already in the public domain constitutes retroactive censorship, an ex post facto law, another unwelcome infringement on Constitutional liberties...
...part, Willard might have commanded an audience's interest and empathy by sheer force of personal magnetism. Having no star, the director tried a more desperate solution: he commissioned Journalist Michael Herr (Dispatches) to write a narration that attempts to fill in Willard's personality ex post facto on the sound track. That narration-alternately sensitive, psychopathic, literary, gung-ho and antiwar-is self-contradictory and often at odds with Willard's behavior. It does not establish the protagonist as a credible figure or begin to achieve Coppola's loftier goal of charting Willard...
...page opinion, Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the appeals court said that the fact that Kodak dominated its field was no reason to penalize it for having taken the lead with the 110 system. "The mere possession of monopoly power does not ipso facto condemn a market participant," Kaufman wrote. Moreover, he added, "the first firm, even a monopolist, to design a new camera format has a right to the lead time that follows from its success...
...profligate American attitude toward oil consumption. More recently, they have been angered by stories that CIA agents had reported home that the Saudi royal family was split in its policy over Egypt and that the power of Crown Prince Fahd, generally assumed to be the country's de facto ruler, was in decline...
...dismal science" to realize that the more South Africa restricts the right of foreign investors to manage and dispose of their assets, the less attractive investment in that country becomes. To restrict unreasonably the freedom of investors to repatriate the profits of their existing operations constitutes expropriation and de facto nationalization of those operations. Multinational capital has never been known to view uncritically such actions, whether the offending government is headed by a Salvador Allende or a P.W. Botha...