Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Executive privilege has never been applied to shield Executive officers from prosecution for crime." In another case requiring newsmen to answer grand jury questions, White, again for the majority, indicated that "in proper circumstances a subpoena could be issued to the President of the United States." And in the Pentagon papers case, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger criticized the New York Times for failing "to perform one of the basic and simple duties of every citizen" when it became aware of stolen property. "That duty ... was to report forthwith to responsible officers. This duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices...
...against targets in South Viet Nam. True reports on the Strategic Air Command bombing runs out of Guam or Thailand -as many as 407 in one month-were routed directly to President Nixon, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and a small handful of top officials, bypassing the normally classified Pentagon record-keeping channels...
...burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist's office in a search for personal information on Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg...
...Pentagon now says that it plans to demilitarize the nerve gas starting in October. The process takes time (some will be detoxified in a special new facility at the arsenal), and therefore Denver airport cannot build its new runway before 1977. Meantime, Colorado Air Pollution Official Joe Palomba Jr. is investigating what other wonders the arsenal may have omitted from its inventory. Says he: "I do not want to be hit with any more surprises...
Born. To Jane Fonda, 35, Oscar-winning actress (Klute) and militant champion of such liberal causes as Indian rights and Women's Lib, and her husband since January, Tom Hayden, 33, one of the Chicago Seven and most recently a witness for the defense in the Pentagon papers trial: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Troy O'Donavan Garity...