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...said he had "no evidence" that the White House had attempted in the past several years to harass either himself or Harvard, although he said his first reaction was one of "concern" that such government moves might have been made. "Reflecting upon the past, I have no sense that the University has suffered," Bok said...
Kilson charged that the actions "amounted to a form of intellectual coercion inasmuch as the purpose was to harass, limit, or suppress publication by me of a version of my Bulletin articles in The New York Times Magazine...
...either pleaded guilty or were convicted on charges stemming from the Watergate affair. In return, Stans is suing O'Brien for $5,000,000 for libel and is asking $2.5 million for "abuse of process" (in effect claiming that the Democrats have filed their suits to harass...
Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn may be too celebrated to imprison, but there are other ways for the Kremlin to harass rebellion. The Soviets have just thrown a smokescreen over Solzhenitsyn's novel, August, 1914, by publishing 100,000 copies of Barbara Tuchman's 1962 history of the same period, The Guns of August. (Mrs. Tuchman, who was neither consulted nor paid, said the Soviet tactic was "absurd" because "Solzhenitsyn and I come to much the same conclusions.") As another harassment the Russian Supreme Court undertook to review Solzhenitsyn's 1971 divorce decree from his first wife...
...subject to the whim of the government and its agents. He was jailed on a whim, and released on a whim. We cannot help but wonder what the future holds for the freedoms inherent in the First Amendment when the government holds and exercises unbridled powers to detain, harass and jail newsmen, scholars and other law-abiding citizens of this country...