Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...establishing a solid consensus. Last week even Mister Sam might have been surprised at the swift surge of revulsion that swept both chambers of Congress. It came suddenly on Wednesday, eight days after the release of the presidential transcripts. The turn seemed to come with the gathering flow of mail running as much as 10-1 against the President, the opportunity for enough of the busy Congressmen finally to read through much of the transcripts, and the chain reaction of exchanges among the members in cloakrooms and over coffee. Whatever the exact process, a critical mass was reached, and with...
...Razor's Edge." But Republicans are generally agreed on what they would like the President to do on his own: resign. As they gathered in anxious huddles last week, as their mail piled up from angry constituents, they recognized that the President's troubles were also their own. The longer he clings to office, the harder it will be for them to win re-election in the fall. "We're on the razor's edge," said a Mid-Atlantic G.O.P. Congressman. "These are the facts of life." In the meantime, many Republicans feared that the President's delaying tactics were...
...bring suit protecting their religion. Other legal challenges followed. In a series of state and federal courts, prisoners have won the right to form cultural and educational organizations, to complain to newspapers, to correspond with their attorneys without officials opening the letters and to have less censorship of other mail and reading material. Last week even the Supreme Court put its stamp of disapproval on such censorship, saying that it was constitutional only in limited situations that substantially affected "security, order and rehabilitation...
...prisoner groups, prison officials regularly transfer leaders or troublemakers to other institutions, a practice now under attack as unconstitutional punishment in various courts. Some hard-line penologists are also seeking to overturn court decisions concerning the attorney-client privilege and are hoping to regain the right to censor prisoner mail and restrict the flow of supposedly radical reading material into institutions. As an example of the kind of material he would keep out of prisons, Sergeant William Hankins of San Quentin cites the books found in George Jackson's cell after his death, notably Das Kapital by Karl Marx...
...German Bunker, says the show's producer, Wolfgang Menge, is "more malicious, less human, more vulgar" than his American counterpart. The cocky, mustachioed Alfred was intended to be loathsome, and to impress his estimated 27 million viewers as such. Instead, his tirades have inspired a flood of laudatory mail: "Dear Herr Tetzlaff, you spoke right out of my heart," or "Keep on! You have millions of people on your side." Archie Bunker, when he first appeared, got his share of similar support, but-in the eyes of a critical national and foreign press, at least-Archie's popularity...