Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOVERNMENT has finally dropped its six-month long effort to suppress Howard Morland's "The H-Bomb Secret," and the article will appear in The Progressive's next issue. It's about time. The court based its prior restraint injunction on specious "national security" grounds; as the government has admitted, and as Morland had contended all along, the supposedly "secret restricted" information contained in the article had been available to the public from a variety of unclassified sources, including several public libraries, scientific journals and the current edition of the Encyclopedia Americana...
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 reclassify information already in the public domain constitutes retroactive censorship, an ex post facto law, another unwelcome infringement on Constitutional liberties...
...research team discovered a sheep's skeleton and two coins in July as it combed the area prior to the extension of the Red Line. Further exploration at the site adjacent to Wadsworth Gate revealed the remains of a Harvard dormitory with over 12,000 artifacts including pieces of ceramic pottery and galss, many animal bones, and paraphernalia students used in colonial days...
...Prior to Carter's session with congressional leaders, many had assumed that talks between Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrinin had been substantive...
Harvard's varsity and freshman football teams are looking for managers. A good opportunity for those interested in football and future management careers, no prior managing experience is required. Applications are available in the manager's office, 60 Boylston St. Interested persons should attend a meeting at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Varsity Club...