Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon Administration's mass arrests during the 1971 May Day antiwar demonstrations. Noted for facing judicial issues headon, Gesell has been both helpful and damaging to Nixon in the President's judicial showdowns. He rejected the Administration's attempts to stop publication of the Pentagon papers in the Washington Post in 1971, but sided with Nixon in ruling that the Senate Watergate committee had not shown a sufficient need for presidential tape recordings to override Nixon's claim of Executive privilege. If he cites Nixon for contempt in the Ellsberg case, Gesell, 63, may become...
Richardson was director of the Pentagon in 1973 when the Nixon administration began six months of merciless bombing in Cambodia. His appointment as successor to Melvin Laird was announced before the carpet-bombing of Hanoi which began in December 1972. Richardson did not refuse that December to become Secretary of Defense. At no time did he make any public statement to protest the terror. He did not resign in February rather than help direct the indiscriminate bombing of Cambodian homes, farms and villages. If Richardson secretly opposed such devastation, he lacked the courage to act on his conviction...
...moral absolutes. When facing a choice for which more rigid codes offer an automatic answer (thou shalt not steal), a follower of situation ethics might decide upon reflection that breaking a literal rule would serve a higher moral purpose than observing it. Hence disclosing Government secrets, as in the Pentagon-papers case, might be justified by arguing that the act heightened opposition to an evil...
...Environmental Protection Agency might be called on to inspect candidates' home furnaces. Or the FBI would have to run a fingerprint check. The Pentagon would then attest to the validity of the candidate's Good Conduct Medal. All of this public reassurance, of course, to be financed by the public...
...trial for their participation in the 1969 takeover of University Hall. Flym's class on Constitutional Issues studies the decisions of the three-year old Burger Court, and the analysis of cases often devolves into heated discussions incorporating recent political controversy. A discussion of Gravel v. U.S., the Pentagon Papers case, includes a debate on that decision's bearing on Nixon's claims of executive privilege with regard to the Watergate tapes. A box of cookies is passed from row to row and two women in the third row are knitting. There is a steady flow of whispering among students...