Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Draftees will be tapped by "fair and impartial random" selection-a lottery-like concept that Johnson acronymously dubbed "FAIR...
...Allemands!" Luce himself had become, before the age of 40, one of the most successful journalists of his century. After a divorce from his first wife, he married Clare Boothe Brokaw, playwright and former editor of Vanity Fair, and they became leading figures in New York social and intellectual life...
...editors thrown in jail-nominally for espionage, but actually because Premier Levi Eshkol feared mention of any link between Arab Morocco and Israel. Eshkol had privately told a group of editors, not including Bui's, that Israel had helped organize the Moroccan secret service in return for fair treatment of Moroccan Jews. Later, Eshkol said, the Moroccans had asked Israel to help kidnap Ben Barka, but Israel had refused to commit itself. Even so, if word of close ties between the two countries were to get out, Eshkol was afraid that it would jeopardize Israel's relations with...
...cameras and had deplored news reporting that posed "even the probability of unfairness." The change reflects growing concern over the kind of prejudicial publicity that might sway jurors and influence convictions. Although the court has yet to work out an accommodation between the constitutional rights of free press and fair trial, lawyers are proposing crime-news curbs that leave the U.S. press aghast. The press is now all but accusing the bar of yearning to imitate the British system of jailing errant editors for contempt...
Most Dangerous. Last fall a "tough" proposal was advanced by the American Bar Association's advisory committee on fair trial and free press, chaired by Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Hitting the bar and the police rather than the press, the committee called on all U.S. courts to adopt new rules forbidding police, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judicial employees to make any out-of-court statement going beyond a bare description of the crime and the charges...