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With the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals' quick and uncommonly forceful rejection yesterday of a limited agreement by Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, there seem to be only two possible conclusions to the long-running series of trials: answers or prison...
...declined to comment, however, on any specific nation the government plans to take in Popkin's case...
...government had said in its brief to the Supreme Court that Popkin had not previously claimed his answers would compromise confidential sources...
...Popkin was in Pennsylvania for a speaking engagement yesterday and could not be reached for comment, Daniel Kluback, his attorney, said yesterday that he believed the stipulation to "entirely consistent with the representations made by the Solicitor General (Erwin N. Griswold) to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...stipulation, if accepted by the court, leaves Popkin open to recall by the grand jury. It remains unclear, however, whether he will be lbligated to answer the three specific questions previously put forward by the government...