Word: jerseys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stolen good included $3 million in American money being flown from Frankfurt, Germany, to the Chase Manhattan bank here. Jewels were also stolen, according to a policeman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operaters the airport...
...find themselves the center of attention of an attractive group of young people who spend hours talking and working with them." This is not just an American phenomenon. Similar groups have sprung up in Western Europe and Japan. Writes Byong-Suh Kim, chairman of the sociology department at New Jersey's Montclair College: "Japanese society has become highly fragmented and materialistic, making young people long for communal solidarity with an authoritarian figure and specific behavior guidelines...
Farber, whose reporting helped lead to the trial of Dr. Mario Jascalevich for the murders of three patients at a small New Jersey hospital, was jailed for contempt of court after refusing to turn over his notes to the trial judge. Farber was freed last month just before the jury found Jascalevich "not guilty," but the New Jersey Supreme Court had upheld the reporter's contempt conviction, along with the fines levied against the Times for refusing to surrender its own documents on the case...
...Branzburg vs. Hayes (1972), the leading pronouncement on the subject, the Justices ruled 5 to 4 that reporters could not refuse to testify before a grand jury. The court did suggest, however, that states could enact "shield" laws to protect a reporter's sources and notes. New Jersey and 25 other states have them. In Farber's case, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided that the shield law "must yield," because it came into conflict with a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial...
Times executives have complained that the New Jersey courts never held a hearing to show that the defendant needed Farber's notes. "I think this is a new legal gimmick," said Times Executive Editor Abe Rosenthal last week. "You try the press. You turn attention away. By the time this case was over nobody remembered what it was about; everybody was talking about Farber...