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...minority protested the haste with which the courts had been required to act and wanted to return the case for more deliberate trials in lower courts. This would give the Government a better chance to prove, as it claims, that some of the disclosures would do "great and irreparable harm" to national security. Justices from both the majority and minority factions reminded the Government that Congress had enacted laws against disclosure of secret documents that might be applied after publication. They implied that if the Government's assessment of the dangers in the Pentagon papers were sound, it should...
...Quick Ruling. Griswold urged the court to establish a standard that would allow the Government to prevent newspapers from publishing classified material that he claimed would do "great and irreparable harm" to the nation's security. In lower courts, the Government had alleged that willful disclosure of secret information violated both the Espionage Act and an executive order dealing with classified material. Arguing for the Times, Alexander Bickel, the polished Yale law professor, contended that the Government had failed to show there was a "direct and immediate link" between "the fact of publication" and any "grave event" that endangered...
Full Responsibility. Meeting newsmen aboard his ship five days after the attack, Hebrew-speaking Greek Captain Marcos Moscos, 37, displayed the damage. Two of the shells had missed from a distance of less than 100 yds., and six did only superficial harm. But two compartments loaded with oil were hit; in one, a fire raged for 45 minutes. "We were lucky the ship didn't explode," said Moscos. "It didn't because we pumped more oil into the tank and kept gases from gathering. But the main credit...
...Gurfein said he granted the order "because in my opinion any temporary harm that may result from not publishing during the pendancy of the application for a preliminary injunction is far outweighed by the irreparable harm that could be done to the interests of the United States government if it should finally prevail...
...required school attendance, as Mississippi did after the Supreme Court's desegregation order, might encourage pinch-penny governments to reduce their spending on education. The poor would thus be abandoned completely to the school of hard knocks. More subtly, making teachers depend on student demand might do grave harm to universities that now support "impractical" scholarship and to the intellectual freedom to criticize society. Illich cheerfully agrees that deschooling would probably decelerate technology and the consumption that feeds economic growth. That is one of his chief goals. "Men must choose," he says, "whether to be rich in things...