Word: free-speech
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...Russell tribunal took pains to avoid mentioning the man whom they had really wanted to indict-President Lyndon Johnson. Though many of the Swedes do not approve of the U.S. course in Viet Nam, they were nonetheless embarrassed at having such a group taking advantage of their neutrality and free-speech laws...
...question was far from capricious. The Supreme Court says that allegedly obscene material can lose the free-speech protection of the First Amendment whenever (among other things) it clearly affronts "contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters." Because obscenity is a federal constitutional issue, adds the court, those standards must be national rather than local. Does this really tell lower courts how to decide obscenity cases...
Speaking for a six-man court majority, Chief Justice Warren ruled that the Cuban ban does not contradict Kent, because it applies to all citizens and does not penalize individual beliefs. As for the free-speech argument, he said, "the right to speak and publish does not carry with it the unrestrained right to gather information." But what about delegation of powers? Acting under the 1926 law, said Warren, the State Department restricted travel to Ethiopia, Spain and China in the 1930s, and later to many Iron Curtain countries. By not acting, said Warren, Congress implicitly approved such administrative rules...
...civil rights; by combining idealism, emotional appeal, techniques, and proof that students can act effectively, this cause has lifted students out of their silent-generation apathy of the late '50s. Students from Yale, Harvard and Princeton were well represented at Selma last week; Mario Savio, the original free-speech leader at Berkeley, showed up too. And a healthy thing it is, insists St. John's Sociology Professor William Osborne: "This generation of students has what other generations have lacked-a holy discontent, courage, and the willingness to sacrifice...
When Fox refused, Smoot asked for a writ of prohibition from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Fox argued in reply that the ladies had a free-speech right to clear their names, said he was convinced that Smoot had sued them as part of "a definite plan of harassment and punishment." Without a trial, said Fox, the league would be open to similar suits every time it spoke out. With a trial, the courts could attack a new libel issue-whether public commentators, like public officials, are subject to the rule of no recovery from critics except...