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From the start, the case had the ingredients of a Hollywood whodunit. But when the defense, claiming a frame-up, demanded to see the reporter's notes, the Doctor X trial was transformed into a clash of constitutional principles as well. Citing the First Amendment and a New Jersey "shield law" giving a reporter the privilege of refusing to disclose confidential sources, Farber and the Times refused to turn over anything. The result: a head-on collision between the First and Sixth Amendments, between the constitutional claims of free press and fair trial...
Last week the Times and its reporter seemed to be the chief victims of the collision. With Jascalevich's trial in its fifth month, Judge William J. Arnold demanded Farber's notes for private inspection? apparently to determine whether the shield law applied. When Farber refused, both he and the Times were cited for contempt...
...morning after, embalmers performed their grisly work over open rows of caskets, six of them the small and white coffins of children. Some of the blackened bodies were still curled as if to shield themselves from the heat, and many faces still wore expressions of terror. Yet Los Alfaques would not remain a scene of death for long. Not far away from the formation of caskets, at the end of the camp that had escaped the blast, surviving children had already returned to playing on the beach...
CONSIDERING the surroundings, the plaque on the office door does not appear particularly foreboding: two chessboards dominate the lacquered shield, overshadowing the more traditional military insignias. Nor does the name beneath the plaque sound too threatening: the Studies Analysis and Gaming Agency (SAGA), you think, sounds like a fun place, perhaps the headquarters for a bunch of pudgy high-school kids who spend their afternoons at board games while their mesomorphic friends are outside playing touch football. But then you think again about the surroundings, which are the Pentagon, and about the people behind the door, who are generals...
...chemistry requires about three days of ultraviolet rays in order to destroy the plants on which it has been sprayed. To save the marijuana, peasants began to rush out and harvest the plants minutes after the helicopters were gone; they put their plants in bags to shield them from the sun. Even though they had been sprayed, the leaves of plants so shielded did not yellow. The plants appeared normal, so the peasants could sell them as if they were uncontaminated. The result: contaminated marijuana was mixed into the approximately 3,000 tons of Mexican pot smuggled annually into...