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...trial for a defendant, Denver U.S. District Judge Fred Winner accused three Justice Department tax attorneys of "repeated excesses" in the course of the investigation, including having "browbeaten and ridiculed" one grand jury witness and "threatened" another. Following standard practice, the judge's ruling was published in paperbound form and was set for a hardcover edition by West Publishing Co., the private concern that issues volumes of federal and state court opinions. But the Government lawyers charged that Winner's opinion contained "defamatory and scandalous" accusations, and West Publishing did not challenge the resulting censorship order. Three weeks...
...sure, the issue was never one of total suppression, since both court records and the paperbound publications remained readily available. Still, the Government did end up having second thoughts. Tax Division Chief Glenn Archer's signature was on the censorship petition, and at first he defended it to reporters. But after the storm of criticism, the department contended Archer had not known what his assistants were asking for. "This doesn't represent the policy of the Justice Department," said Deputy Attorney General Edward Schmults. "It was a mistake, and it won't happen again...
SHOUT! THE BEATLES IN THEIR GENERATION by Philip Norman Fireside; 414 pages; $9.95;paperbound...
East River Anthology; 294 pages; $5.95, paperbound...
LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN by Louis L'Amour; Bantam; $2.25;paperbound...