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...York Times [June 28] is to be commended for the publication of excerpts from the secret Pentagon report on U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. At the same time, the U.S. Government's case to restrain further publication of these official secrets is justified. But on balance, if we look beyond the letter of the law. the action of the New York Times has made a genuine contribution to the preservation of free institutions...
...exemptions for church property. In Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York, Burger argued that the process of assessing and taxing church-owned property would create an "excessive entanglement" between state and church. Supervisors who monitor teachers in the Pennsylvania and Rhode Island plans might sufficiently restrain pedagogues from advancing religion to meet the Allen test. But ironically, such checks would violate the Walz test by producing "the sort of entanglement that the Constitution forbids"-in this case "dangers of excessive Government direction." The plans would also inevitably cause excessive politicking by churches, since each year state...
...into account, very slight taunting may be enough to withdraw constitutional protection under some circumstances." The mere appearance, however, of a speaker in a community unfriendly to his views is not evidence of provocation. When violence or disorder result solely from audience hostility, the police must ordinarily seek to restrain the crowd, not arrest the speaker...
Playing North as cool, rather xenophobic and wry (as his research suggested), Ustinov showed his contempt for the colonials by referring to a certain "Colonel George Washingham." Asked about another rebel leader, Ustinov could not restrain himself from a coy, anachronistic gag. "John Hancock, sir, there can be no insurance of anything while he is active," he sniffed. At more serious moments, Ustinov dismissed the Boston Massacre as "a minor incident" and, when queried as to "the core of the quarrel between the Americans and your government," replied: "You regard it as a quarrel; I regard it more as slight...
...Democracy, more than any other form of government, requires self-restraint by its citizens, he maintains, and self-restraint can be partially achieved by laws governing public amusements. Pornography makes people shameless, he believes: "Those who are without shame will be unruly and unrulable; having lost the ability to restrain themselves by obeying the rules they collectively give themselves, they will have to be ruled by others." Therefore pornography leads to tyranny, Berns concludes...