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Unlike most other "shield bills," Segal's bill will also protect the content of confidential conversations in most cases, he said...
Shortly after the robbers entered the store, a silent alarm, set off accidentally, alerted the police. Within minutes they arrived at the store, just in time to catch the gunmen leaving by a side door. They were using one of the store's owners, Samuel Rosenblum, as a shield. After a rapid exchange of fire, in which one policeman was wounded in the hand and arm, the four men retreated into the gun shop. There they took the twelve people in the store as hostages...
...price increase that had been pending before the now-defunct Price Commission. On the other hand. Alcoa decided to risk raising its prices on some products. Aluminum price rises have been expected because of a jump in demand, and the company apparently relied on that fact to shield it against federal displeasure...
Four newsmen have been jailed in the past year either for refusing to disclose sources of information or withholding unpublished material from curious grand juries. With the First Amendment no longer a shield against such proceedings, other reporters may also be prosecuted. Reporter William Farr ran into trouble while covering the Charles Manson murder trial for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. He published a story based on a witness's confidential statement to the district attorney's office, then refused to comply with Judge Charles Older's demand that he name his source. Upon losing a long...
Clumsy Rescue. Slipping through the security net disguised as priests and hospital orderlies, the gunmen grabbed a nun and, using her as a shield, advanced down the hallway toward MacStiofáin's room. There, as two of the gunmen dropped to their knees and threatened to kill the hospital attendants present, detectives closed in shooting. In the pandemonium, two I.R.A. men were wounded and four others were caught later, but the clumsy rescue attempt had been too close for comfort. The following day, MacStiofáin was bundled off by helicopter to the Curragh, the Irish army...