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...month before Furry's appearance before the HUAC, Arthur Sutherland, professor of Law, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor and a respected civil libertarian, issued a statement intended to clear up ambivalent aspects of the fifth amendment. In sum, they argued that it was "ill-advised" for witnesses to withhold testimony on grounds of self-incrimination in court or before legislative investigation committees. The professors felt the citizen "is neither morally nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak." Also ruled out as a motive for silence was a "sense of sportsmanship toward suspected...
...distraught that he couldn't give him a clear story. "1 could not get an answer," said Fortas. "But I was desperately concerned for this man's wife and six children." Fortas and Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford went to the Washington Star, asked the editors to withhold publication of the story "to at least give us time to find out." The editors agreed, and Fortas said last week, "I shall always honor those men." As for his role in temporarily suppressing the news, Fortas said, "I am not ashamed. I am proud...
...equal partner in economic matters. The visitors stiffly turned down U.S. requests for a lowering of Japanese tariffs against U.S. goods and restrictions against U.S. investments. They also declined a U.S. invitation to contribute to a billion-dollar aid program for Southeast Asia, rejected the U.S. suggestion that they withhold long-term credits from Communist China...
...reply to a letter from Senator Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.), Keppel said that a fraternity's refusal to admit a Negro because of his race could be grounds for cutting off federal funds to a University. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act empowers the Federal Government to withhold funds from recipients who practice racial discrimination...
Turning to the Dominican Republic, Humphrey urged that France withhold further criticism of actions by the OAS peace-keeping force. De Gaulle, recalling that he was acquainted with deposed Dominican President Juan Bosch, said he assumed that the U.S. had intervened in the first place to prevent Bosch's return to power. It was difficult to understand this, De Gaulle said, in view of the U.S. policy of nonintervention in Latin American affairs...