Word: prior
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Embarrassing prior restraint...
...unambiguous. As an unbroken line, of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1931 makes clear, the constitutional ban on prior restraint of publication is all but absolute. An exception might be made if there was a grave and immediate threat to the national security, but no such case has ever arisen...
...Government prosecutors. What was even more surprising was that a panel of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Oklahoma had granted a temporary injunction. The appeals court rescinded its order last Tuesday, but constitutional experts were still shocked that the court had agreed, however briefly, to the prior restraint. "For 21 days there was a censorship order outstanding against an absolutely trivial publication," said First Amendment Attorney James Goodale indignantly...
Houghton Library, the granddaddy of Harvard's rare book libraries, contains one of the world's most extensive collections--over 450,000 volumes. According to Hugh Amory '52, a curator at Houghton, the library collects any book printed before 1601, English books before 1701, and North American books printed prior...
...visiting delegation of French peace activists urging that "not a single chance should be missed for a return to the path of talks." But the Soviet leader continued to insist that negotiations would only resume when NATO was ready to "return to the situation which had existed prior to the start of the deployment of U.S. medium-range missiles in Europe...