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...Gilman-Salzberg cases come at a time when journalists are increasingly disturbed over Government agencies using the press for their own ends. Recently in New York, a radio station was approached by the CIA looking to recruit foreign correspondents as agents. Over the past year, law enforcement agencies have stepped up the use of subpoena powers for "fishing expeditions" in the files of newspapers and TV news film libraries. And just last week in Chicago, hundreds of feet of network news-film-some of it never intended for broadcast-were introduced into the conspiracy trial over defense objections that such...
...conspiracy trial in Chicago is far from over, but it has already prompted troublesome questions about U.S. justice. For one, the new federal antiriot statute on which the charges are based may itself be unconstitutional. Last week U.S. District Judge Julius J. Hoffman raised a whole new set of volatile issues. Incensed at Black Panther Bobby Scale, the defiant defendant whom Hoffman had ordered gagged and manacled to his chair, the 74-year-old judge suddenly declared a mistrial for Seale and found him guilty on 16 charges of contempt of court. Without much further ado, Hoffman sentenced Seale...
Died. Thurman W. Arnold, 78, eminent Washington lawyer and onetime New Deal trustbuster; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va. As an Assistant Attorney General from 1938 to 1943, Arnold initiated more antitrust suits (230) than any other individual in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, winning major decisions against the American Medical Association, Standard Oil of New Jersey and the Associated Press. He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1943 but quit two years later to establish his own firm with Paul Porter and Abe Fortas; generous and liberal...
Last week a new prior arrived in Boquen. Dom Besret (pronounced beret) had been summoned to Rome and dismissed for threatening to destroy the monastic concept. Cistercian superiors were unmoved by his pleas to be permitted to stay on as "president" of a more open community. Explained a Vatican official privately: "If you are going to have a monastery, you must have a monastery. It can't be a country club...
...conflict with his Roman superiors started only recently, when he called for reforms beyond the monastery. All priests, he preached, should take a sabbatical year during which they could decide whether to change their lives and marry or return to their vocations. He refused to accept any new novices as long as service in the church was not "defined with sufficient clarity...