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...involved in a series of court proceedings. But when Chief Justice John Marshall issued a subpoena or dering Jefferson to produce a batch of letters and documents, he submitted some of them. President James Monroe reacted in similar fashion when he was subpoenaed to testify at a court-martial in 1818. In a curious modern sequel, a California state judge ordered President John Kennedy to give evidence at a trial in 1961. Some delegates to the 1960 Democratic Convention had been injured while riding in Kennedy's car; to collect damages, they had to prove that they were engaged...
Confronted with student unrest and the threat of martial law, they came home three weeks early, noticeably skinnier, newly bearded and disappointed that they had not been allowed to finish their work...
Tanaka's failure to mollify the Thai students does not augur well for the rest of his good-will mission in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. His first stop had been in Manila and had gone with deceptive smoothness. That was largely due to a state of martial law that prevented any anti-Japanese outbursts and the eagerness of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for injections of more Japanese capital. But during the rest of his itinerary, Tanaka will be faced with the threat of more anti-Japanese demonstrations. Moreover, Tanaka can scarcely assure his Southeast Asian trading partners of more...
...Japanese ambassador was told to caution his country's reporters about Park's new dos and don'ts. South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency (secret police) was given power to investigate the constitution's critics, and army generals were appointed to head the courts-martial that would try offenders. The national police were placed on round-the-clock duty, and uniformed policemen were posted at major intersections in South Korea's chief cities. Park even made it a crime to criticize his decree ordering the crackdown...
...leather legwork has become almost routine at the Herald, the strongest link in the Knight newspaper chain.* Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller has the Herald's carte blanche to travel to big stories: the Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy looking into Bebe...