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...response to a 1965 order from President Johnson, who insisted that eavesdropping by Government agents be "fully in accord with the law and with a decent regard for the rights of others." The Justice Department, aware that a bugging case was before the U.S. Supreme Court, delayed issuing the memorandum until the court acted. Last month the court took its stand, declaring a New York State eavesdropping law unconstitutional by a vote of 5 to 4-with Associate Justice Tom Clark writing the majority decision. It was the last major case for Clark, who retired last month to avoid...
...group of first-year students in Economics also began in March of this year to articulate the unhappiness and grumblings registered by individuals. After several weeks of discussion among themselves, the group presented a memorandum of complaints to the faculty which they felt represented half of the first-year class. The document criticized the overemphasis on rote theorems and proofs in two basic courses, complained that the faculty was inacessible and overly concerned with maintaining its research empire, and put in a plea for a more critical approach to the teaching of economics which might avoid blind acceptance of models...
...committee on bills and overtures ruled that the phrase was directed not at individuals but at nations, and to clinch the argument, the church's chief administrative officer, Stated Clerk William P. Thompson, read to the assembly a Defense Department memorandum declaring that "commitment to the Confession would not disqualify an individual for a position requiring access to classified information." The statement was issued with the approval of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a Presbyterian...
...admission, however, the Justice Department continued to use the same trespassing bugs outlawed by the Supreme Court. In July 1966, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall filed a memorandum in an income tax evasion case stating that the FBI had installed a microphone through the wall of a hotel room--in clear disregard for the Silverman decision. Before 1963, the memorandum stated, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had the authority to order the installation of trespassing eavesdropping equipment "in the interest of internal or national safety...
Many of us writing this memorandum have not been specifically involved in the anti-war movement for some time. Our common criticism of it has been that it is too preoccupied with middle-class protest activity. This activity, while encouraging in some respects, has failed to educate and organize a powerful base even in its own constituency; much less has it established links with the working-class and low-income people who also object to the war. Many of us have been working through community and labor organizing and related activities to build a base among these people. We feel...