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Ross admitted that if several numbers in a row were found to be obscene, a withhold-from-dispatch order might be issued--but even this order would probably be held up until a review of the case. In short, he said, the Post Office has "no right to control the contents of magazines...
...August 27, Postmaster General Arthur J. Summerfield's department issued a withhold-from-dispatch order to prevent Harrison from distributing his magazine to news dealers through the mails. He and his two lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and Daniel Ross, immediately started a civil action against Summerfield, claiming the order was a "clear violation of the Constitution." They were right. On October 7, District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl ordered the Post Office to rescind its order...
...State Department's actions in the matter are also questionable. For even if the A.A.U. does not back down, the State Department should certainly not withhold the visas. Not only does Walsh, through his experience in athletics, seem capable of handling the tour, but the State Department has reduced its own stature by proceeding only on the A.A.U.'s instructions...
...delaying tactics," and ordered that Nathan's passport be delivered "forthwith." State responded by taking the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which stayed Judge Schweinhaut's order but ruled that Dr. Nathan must have a "quasi-judicial hearing" within five days; if State continued to withhold the Nathan passport, it would be compelled to defend its action...
...Pentagon, the brownout had already made even routine information difficult to get. Newsmen did not think that "time," as Charlie Wilson suggested, would work out the troubles. They felt that the troubles were inherent in the terms of the new policy, which used security as an excuse to withhold news...