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...marijuana plant. which he mistook for catnip, catfood, and silverfish, which are little bugs that come out of the radiator in the bathroom. The cat would have been indispensable as a silverfish-catcher if we had wanted the silverfish caught. He would sit patiently beside the radiator like a panther in the jungle, waiting for a silverfish so small it could hardly be seen to come out so he could pounce. It was really a very nice cat, and when a bewildered-looking man from Buildings and Grounds came checking for pets--pets are strictly forbidden in Harvard buildings...
...than an ignorant one, and by appropriate instructions from the judge. "A fair trial in a highly publicized case," Barton observes, "depends upon how well indoctrinated jurors are in their role of concentrating on the evidence and ignoring what they have heard outside." He recalls that in several Black Panther trials, jurors specifically said they considered only the evidence presented. "If the Panthers can get this kind of jury," Barton asks, "who's to say Watergate defendants couldn...
...California coast in the mostly blue-collar city of Oakland, incumbent Mayor John H. Reading, 55, won re-election by nearly 2 to 1 over Black Panther Party Co-Founder Bobby Scale, 36. Although Scale ran as a Democrat and had dropped the rhetoric of the Panthers to campaign on bread-and-butter issues, his reputation as a revolutionary lingered. Reading, mayor since 1966, asserts that he won because "my programs were best for the city...
...build-up in Southeast Asia, releasing facts and figures which had not been discovered by wage-earning reporters. If the courts sought to prevent the limited journalists' privilege from becoming universal, it is not unthinkable that such semi-professional journalistic efforts, as well as The Black Panther, Hard Times and The Harvard Crimson, would be considered "illegitimate" and denied the privilege of protecting sources...
...sources, but not necessarily all notes and tapes. The burden would then be on the source to tell the reporter no more than he is willing to see brought to light--either in print or in court. It is doubtful whether Caldwell would have been admitted to a Black Panther headquarters during a shootout if he could only have promised not to reveal identities, but would have had to reveal under oath everything else he saw. Still, some forms of confidential leaks where the information flow could be carefully regulated by the source might not be discouraged by such...