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...Valid Changes? All of these sensations-following the disclosures that the CIA had helped the Watergate raiders to break in to the offices of Ellsberg's former psychiatrist-took the trial far from its original purpose. The Government had been determined to prosecute Ellsberg and Russo as criminals. The defense was equally determined to raise the broadest legal and constitutional issues. Was a charge of espionage valid when the defendants had given no information to a foreign power? (Ellsberg had returned the actual papers to the Rand Corp. files.) Could theft be alleged when the culprits had stolen nothing...
Mental Ward. The St. Louis area has been the scene of considerable illicit drug traffic, and DALE agents based there have made some valid arrests. Still, as one federal law-enforcement official acknowledged, "this isn't the first time" that agents in the vicinity had staged lawless raids. Nor has St. Louis been the only site of such excesses. On Jan. 9 in Winthrop, Mass., DALE agents went along on a morning foray led by state and local police that also turned out to be a terrifying case of mistaken identity...
...that statement contains a touch of hyperbole, it does reflect the sense of vulnerability many newsmen felt while the "major media" were under attack. Such apprehension has been replaced by a feeling of vindication; the traditional stance of the press in American society-rambunctious, independent, skeptical-has been proved valid again. There were two other, more specific lessons...
...Radcliffe is an idea: that of equal educational opportunities for women. This is her historic and continuing function, one which remains valid even after many traditional obstacles to the education of women have been surmounted. The task is not complete...
...students who responded to the proposal, 125, or 94 per cent, were in favor of it. Although Frost hoped to obtain about 350 responses, the number that did respond "is a large enough percentage of the second-year MBA class to make the views presented that much more valid," he wrote in a letter to Lawrence E. Fouraker, Baker Professor of Administration and dean of the faculty of Business Administration...