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...Unman, Wittering and Zigo has to do with unpleasant goings on in an English boarding school, where the boys of lower 5-B casually inform their new master (David Hemmings) that they have murdered his predecessor. It is a basically unbelievable premise that nevertheless makes for some nice, subdued thrills. That is exactly the sort of thing that Willard sorely lacks. It is a movie with a good idea-a young man who uses rats to avenge the oppressions of his elders-but it would have needed a combination of Bunuel and Hitchcock to carry it off. Instead...
...democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of Government and inform the people...
Publication of the Pentagon papers has provoked debate on just how-and where-to draw the line between a government's right to secrecy and the duty of the press to inform. In Britain, for nearly 60 years, the problem has been partly solved in fuzzy fashion by the government's D-Notice, an advisory by gentlemen's agreement that alerts editors to sensitive security subjects. The notices (D is for Defense) have no legal force, and the occasional violations are punishable at worst by deep frowns of disapproval...
...dramatic collision between the Nixon Administration and first the New York Times, then the Washington Post, raised in a new and spectacular form the unresolved constitutional questions about the Government's right to keep its planning papers secret and the conflicting right of a free press to inform the public how its Government has functioned (see story page 17). Yet, even more fundamental, the legal battle focused national attention on the records that the Government was fighting so fiercely to protect. Those records afforded a rare insight into how high officials make decisions affecting the lives of millions as well...
...mere dicta (discussions not crucial to a decision), the new court has snipped away at due-process precedents. So far, the chief casualty has been the Warren Court's famous decision in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which held that police cannot question a suspect in custody until they inform him of his constitutional rights to silence and counsel. At issue this term in Harris v. New York was whether statements made by an unwarned suspect could be used to impeach his testimony at trial. By a vote of 5 to 4, the new court said yes (provided there...