Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood never learns. Or anyway, it forgets easily. Ten years ago, George C. Scott received his second nomination for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for The Hustler. He sent a wire to the Academy and quietly declined. He still remains unimpressed by Oscars. Nominated once again, as Best Actor for his part in Patton, Scott once again dispatched a telegram...
...From Wire Dispatches
WHEN it comes to twisting the law to the disadvantage of those who are actively opposed to government policies, the Justice Department has shown that it can be quite ingenious. Witness the Mitchell Doctrine, as one of the department's rules governing wire-tapping has come to be known: the Mitchell Doctrine holds that when the Attorney General decides that tapping someone's phone is vital to national security, he can authorize a wiretap without getting the approval of a court. Quite simply, the doctrine states that the Attorney General can overlook the Fourth Amendment when he judges it necessary...
...John Sinclair. John Forest, and Lawrence (Pun) Plumondon are on trial in Detroit for conspiring to bomb a CIA office in that city. Plumondon has also been charged with actually bombing the office-on September 29, 1968. Judge Keith ordered the Justice Department to turn over logs from its wire taps to the defendants so that their lawyers could determine whether or not the government is using evidence stemming from illegal wiretaps. The Justice Department-which has asked the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse Keith's ruling-argued that there is no real difference between foreign and domestic...
According to Sachs, the VVW chose Detroit for the hearings after the State Department refused visas to five South Vietnamese army deserters who wanted to testify. The VVW invited the five men to Toronto and arranged a closed-circuit TV wire-up between the two cities...