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...Supreme Court, which ruled last June that newsmen have no absolute privilege to keep their sources secret, has also pointed out that the courts have no absolute right to demand that reporters respond to every whim of prosecution or defense. The Times changed its mind and decided to obey Sirica's order. After Baldwin agreed to release the paper from its agreement of confidentiality, the Times turned the tapes over to the court...
...Because of the 1970 census two U.S. Representatives now find themselves struggling for the same seat: David Obey, 34, a popular Democratic liberal; and Alvin O'Konski, 68, the 14-term Republican incumbent noted locally for his support of Project Sanguine, a costly Navy communications system that would involve burying 6,000 miles of antenna throughout northern Wisconsin's forests. That issue, coupled with the farmers' anger over the controversial Russian wheat deal and George McGovern's surprising strength in the area (polls show him even with Nixon), has put Obey in a strong position. Concedes...
...represents the reward for capitalist risk taking. They add that McGovern's tax policy would hinder investment that is vital to economic growth. There would indeed be some danger of dampening investment, but McGovern has at least produced a tax program that is logically consistent and that would obey the principle of levying taxes in accordance with people's ability...
McGovern insists that capital gains must be taxed as ordinary income in order to make the revenue system obey the cardinal principle of levying taxes in accordance with ability to pay. The Senator's supporters argue that the progressive nature of the federal-state tax system has been undermined by federal income tax rate cuts that have benefited the rich most of all, and by great increases in sales, property and Social Security taxes, which bear most heavily on the poor. Capital gains taxes, so the argument goes, must be raised in order to redress the balance...
Even John Kennedy, badly burned by the Bay of Pigs, had to obey this law. Although he resisted advice to commit a large force to Viet Nam, he still had to send enough troops to ensure a stalemate. That the escalations of subsequent Presidents were made after considerable pessimistic advice and with one eye on the Gallup poll leads Ellsberg to dismiss the general belief that the U.S. sank slowly in the East like some hapless woolly mammoth in a tar pit. Perhaps Presidents overestimated the consequences of clear-cut withdrawal not only because of the advice they received...