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...engage in disruption. While untruthful and defamatory speech may give rise to civil liability it is neither a justification nor an excuse for disruption, and it may not be considered in any subsequent proceeding against offenders as a mitigating factor. Nor are racial insults or other "fighting words" a valid ground for disruption or physical attack, certainly not from a voluntary audience invited but it no way compelled to be present. Only if speech advocates immediate and serious illegal action, such as burning down a library, and there is danger that the audience will proceed to follow such an exhortation...
...letter to the co presidents of the Center's Board of Directors Griffin said he is leaving with no personal regrets, but that he "still can find no valid excuse for firing us [Griffin and the other two employees] without reason and appointing another without consultation...
...arrested Watergate burglars. But he claimed that his interest was not to keep the funds from being traced to Nixon's re-election committee; he wanted to protect the anonymity of the political donors whose checks had been converted to this use. He also claimed that there were valid national-security reasons for calling off the FBI, but he could not explain why, then, he had agreed that Nixon should not get personally involved in diverting the investigation. "Isn't it a fact that the whole reason for this was political ... with criminal overtones to it?" Ben-Veniste...
...fact, virtually all the talks and trips had a serious, valid purpose. The Common Market summit, for instance, seemed headed for disaster-a destination it may eventually reach anyway -until Schmidt flew to London. Apparently moved by Harold Wilson's argument that Britain is being unfairly treated in the Common Market budget, Schmidt hinted that the Market's richest members, meaning West Germany and France, might ante up more.* He then encouraged the Paris dinner between his old friend Giscard and Wills son so that the British Prime Minister ' could try to convince the French President...
...East has any valid claim to effeteness, it surfaces during the collegiate football "bowl" season...