Word: prior
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...Burger Court's record is not entirely adverse to the press. The court has repeatedly ruled that the First Amendment protects the press from "prior restraint,"-that is, from laws or court rulings that prevent the press from publishing what it knows. Thus the court allowed the press to publish the Pentagon papers in 1971, despite claims by the Government of national security; unanimously (7-0) struck down a Virginia statute last year that penalized newspapers for revealing secret disciplinary proceedings against a judge; and forbade courts in 1976 to "gag" the press to keep it from printing information...
...several appeals and counter-appeals which reached all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. However, in light of the Bakke decision, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the appeals court for reconsideration, and the appeals court instructed the district court to reverse its prior decision and rule in favor of the plaintiffs...
...vowed that his government intended to "liquidate" the organization, which was formed in Egypt in 1928 for the purpose of imposing strict Islamic order on Muslim countries. Last week Syria announced that 15 members of the brotherhood had been executed for terrorist acts; all had been arrested prior to the Aleppo incident...
...suggested that he may be worried about increasing criticism of his autocratic and erratic leadership of the country's unfinished revolution. Last week an open letter by the National Democratic Front, a breakaway political movement from the larger National Front, all but accused Khomeini of being a dictator. "Prior to the revolution's success," the letter read, " 'unity of word' in your opinion was unity of purpose in overthrowing the monarchy. But now it practically means 'unity in obedience to me.' " The NDF, which is led by a grandson of onetime Premier Mohammed Mossadegh...
Nowhere is editorial ambivalence more apparent than on the question of supporting the Progressive magazine in its attempt to publish an article and chart showing how a nuclear bomb works. The magazine is now under federal injunction not to publish its report, an unprecedented case of prior restraint that is troubling to all editors. Overcoming their initial misgivings, the board of directors of the A.S.N.E. voted unanimously to support the Progressive's appeal. With somewhat less agonizing, the American Society of Magazine Editors last week announced that it too would back the appeal...