Word: precedental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BUT it didn't work. A few SDS people, suspecting such a ploy, had stayed behind when the decoy car attempted to pull out. When McNamara was hustled toward the Mill St. gate and a waiting Harvard police station wagon, the students refused to budge. The crowd gathered around, a...
But, with the possible exception of "the April season" of protest, that precedent has been sublimated, if not forgotten. The fringe demos that accompany the appearance of each "imperialist war monger" and "amoral capitalist" are strictly routine, a part of the scenery. That's the way it appeared last Monday...
Although the government eventually gave up its suit when the same information appeared in another publication two weeks ago, the precedent of prior restraint whenever authorities feel the urge to suppress publicly available information has unfortunately been established. Aside from the violence done to the First Amendment, this attempt to...
Indeed, as the governor, mayor, and nearly every candidate for public office in the Commonwealth have noted since at least mid-August, the visit of the Pope to Boston is an event of immense significance, one without parallel, outshining even that most memorable 11th of July 1976 when her Majesty...
The invitation extended to Pope John Paul II to speak on the Dudleian Foundation would have, if accepted, provided a remarkable bit of counterpoint to Mr. Justice Dudley's theme. It would not, however, have been the first time that a Roman Prelate spoke upon that foundation. That distinction belongs...