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Unless an act of flag abuse presents an immediate danger to public safety ?for example, it incites to riot?then, by Neuborne's reasoning, it represents a political statement. Says U.C.L.A. Professor Melville Nimmer: "When we have symbolic speech, and the only reason the authorities prohibit the speech is because they object to what is being said, then that is suppressing speech." In the early 1900s, some states enforced religious orthodoxy through blasphemy statutes under which a person was held criminally liable for showing indignity or irreverence toward God. In some ways the flag laws are a political analogue...
...effort to prevent construction of new housing intended for the poor. To encourage such projects, so the tired argument runs, would hurt the neighborhood and overload its schools. Washington has long avoided making a direct challenge to such local rules. But last week the Nixon Administration asked Congress to prohibit local governments from using their power to control land use in ways that thwart construction of federally subsidized housing for low-or moderate-income families. The legislation would hit suburbs hard, because it would apply only to "underdeveloped or predominantly undeveloped" areas-that is, wealthier areas...
...first of two measures aimed at asserting Congress's role in making war-and peace. As approved 9 to 4 by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, the amendment would bar the expenditure of funds for U.S. combat activity in Cambodia after June 30. It would also prohibit financing of American personnel acting "directly or indirectly" in support of Cambodian forces either on Cambodian territory or in Cambodian airspace. The amendment, originally introduced by Republican John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Frank Church, had picked up an additional 30 cosponsors by last week, including Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield...
...better or worse, the universities are permanently caught up in the cash nexus of the federal government. To disentangle Washington and Cambridge would sabotage Harvard financially and force it to acquire an even more elitist, prep-school character. The truly political solution is to throw out the government, not prohibit university "complicity" with that government. In like manner, it would be dangerous to repeal the draft and turn the Pentagon loose with a professional volunteer army. Like the draft, university "complicity" makes the government sensitive and vulnerable to student protest. The political answer is to repeal the Pentagon, not repeal...
...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) may ask the Federal courts to prohibit the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from prosecuting the demonstrators arrested by state police at Wednesday's "Die-In" at Logan International Airport...