Word: pentagon
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...most significant First Amendment disputes since the Pentagon papers case was argued last week before the Supreme Court. At issue is the constitutionality of a long-ignored Florida law that requires newspapers to give political candidates the right to reply to editorial criticism. But the stakes are much higher than that. Rumbles of interest in a federal "right-to-reply" law have already come from the White House, the Justice Department and some members of Congress, notably Senator John McClellan of Arkansas...
...March issue of Harper's Garcia published an account of how the Chilean armed forces suppressed the Chilean government in the coup of September, 1973. As he traces the contacts between Chilean military officers and the Pentagon, it seems that Garcia is portraying the military men of his fiction all over again. These are the same men who shot three thousand people in Macondo's central square and carted them off in a freight train, and the next morning denied that the massacre had ever occurred. The politics of One Hundred Years of Solitude seem mythic, distanced from contemporary issues...
...Justice Hugo Black. It is the conflict of these interests that produces the adversary relationship that is one of the hallmarks and strengths of a democracy. The first distinctive example of the adversary relationship between the Nixon administration and The Washington Post came during the litigation on the Pentagon Papers. It came from Richard Kleindienst, then Deputy Attorney General to Kenneth Clawson, then a reporter for the Post, now a leader in President Nixon's White House attack group. The occasion was a bit of social drinking at Kleindienst's house after an evening of culture at Wolf Trap Farm...
...Graham fully understand, Kleindienst wanted to know from Clawson, the law involving ownership of television stations? Specifically, the law that prevented convicted felons from owning broadcast properties? If we persisted in publishing the Pentagon Papers, the deputy attorney general went on, and if we refused to turn them over to the Justice Department, we were laying ourselves wide open to criminal prosecution (as distinct from the civil suit then in progress to prevent us from publishing the papers) under the Espionage...
...fight for freedom of the press is often exhausting and always expensive. The Washington Post spent close to $100,000 in legal fees to fight these subpoenas and a dozen lesser attempts to force Post reporters to divulge their sources. (Pursuit of the First Amendment freedom in the Pentagon Papers case two years earlier cost some $85,000.) This kind of expense is not easy for many newspapers to bear...