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...rear of the crowd, protesters carried signs that read: IMPEACH AND IMPRISON. EXORCISE NIXON. Throughout Nixon's speech, hecklers were highly vocal. When he vowed that "no American will ever be denied health care because of lack of ability to pay," someone shouted: "Pay your taxes...
Instead, they turned on others in the dissident movement in a brutal three-year drive to imprison its leaders or confine them in police-run madhouses...
...cabled from Moscow last week, "in the last analysis, the deportation was an act of weakness and desperation?an admission that the Soviet system holds no answer in law or fact or argument to meet Solzhenitsyn's challenge. Unable to answer his charges, incompetent to silence him, afraid to imprison him and incapable of tolerating his opinions, the Soviet state had no other option but to declare him a non-person...
...SOCIALIST, I sometimes question myself about this dilemma. Could I support the suspension of free speech and freedom of the press to aid a revolution waged for the extension of those and other rights? Could I imprison a Chilean truck-owner for endangering socialism--a socialism where there will be no prisons? Could I shoot a Portuguese soldier for a cause that seeks to outlaw war forever...
True, the press has published a number of Watergate disclosures-plainly labeled as secondhand-that would not be accepted under the rules of evidence in a court of law. But the press has no power to subpoena witnesses or to compel testimony (or, for that matter, to imprison its targets). If a reporter gets information from a reliable source who insists on anonymity he has no choice but to preserve that anonymity. When he tries to check an accusation with the official involved, that official is free to lie about it to a reporter-and sometimes does...