We Think We Are Free
McDaniel, The Editors and Ramsey Clark, Judith Miller, Lewis J. Paper, Amanda Spake, Murray Kempton
COMMENT We Think We Are Free WASHINGTON—The FBI said Wednesday it illegally opened mail in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and six other cities in a program paralleling that of the Central...
...Teachers and principals argue that they need to be able to defend themselves against aggressive, overgrown bullies in their classes...
...Absolute discretion is a ruthless master...
...Where discretion is absolute man has always suffered...
...At the height of his power, fifty years old, daring nature itself, he was almost crushed again while riding dangerous mountain trails...
...Here, too, the Senate found the language vague...
...PURE FICTION...
...Emphasis added...
...Notice of the sale was sent to Capitol Hill on the first day of a ten-day Congressional recess...
...Addressing the plight of a doctor denied the right to practice in New York, he wrote, "When a doctor cannot save lives in America because he is opposed to Franco in Spain, it is time to call a halt and look critically at the neurosis that has possessed us...
...Oklahoma (1942...
...Nature struck again in his winter years as he swam in warm ocean waters he once feared...
...Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Democrat, the author of the existing law, has offered two amendments to that effect: The first would expand the period of Congressional consideration of an arms transfer from twenty to thirty calendar days, and would require the Administration to report sales to any one country of more than $50 million a year...
...I could hear my own bones break...
...The New York Times WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency says it is above the wiretap laws and may intercept phone calls Americans make to foreign countries when it deems it necessary...
...COMMENT We Think We Are Free WASHINGTON—The FBI said Wednesday it illegally opened mail in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and six other cities in a program paralleling that of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...The roar of torrents and avalanches in his throat has been the sound of freedom...
...to appearing before the local city council...
...Nothing so infuriates the Lilliputians...
...Officials of the Defense Supply Assistance Agency, responsibile for informing Congress of prospective sales, claim they thought Congress was still in session when the notification was sent...
...I glanced up...
...It may indeed be of some use, at least to ourselves, if we are helped to recognize how much complicity we have in the system of dealings among nations which has finally exposed itself in this cynical and malignant fashion...
...Martin Luther King Jr...
...My Almanac is concerned with the Sermon on the Mount, the United Nations, workmen's compensation, social security, as well as with habeas corpus and the Fifth Amendment...
...Supreme Court...
...but Sadat did suggest that the step need not be a very long one...
...Brazil voted for the anti-Zionist resolution and thus, we may take it, excluded itself from the roster of decent countries identified by our Ambassador to the United Nations...
...He has the background, the training, the experience, the personality, the guts, and the program for which practical progressives have been hunting for so long in one of the two major parties,'' we wrote at the time...
...The Lilliputians failed to tie Gulliver down, but one must wonder how many lesser judges were prompted to function in fear...
...Our 'Infamous' Allies For the General Assembly of the United Nations to declare the Zionism is a racist creed is an offensive enough piece of portentous impudence as it stands...
...RECLAMATION PROJECT...
...In Of Men and Mountains he wrote, "We can keep our freedom through the increasing crises of history only if we are self-reliant enough to be free____We need a faith that dedicates us to something bigger and more important than ourselves...
...He had written in Termeniellos...
...By 1962 he joined the dissenting view, striking school prayers in New York public schools, finding full separation the "durable First Amendment philosophy...
...Its shoulders of basalt were heavy with glacial snow...
...In the Senate's view, such words as "compromise" and "satisfactory" were too ambiguous...
...A lifelong pursuit of freedom has forged a character like the mountains of the Pacific Northwest which give him strength, "tangled, wild, remote, and high...
...They presented it to President Ford...
...Even in the field of regulatory law, where he, with Brandeis, created the modern rule, liberty was his underlying concern...
...and, finally, the administrator could decide alone whether an individual's legal or constitutional rights required a restriction on public access...
...The Sidewinder H, a heat-seeking missile used in close-range dogfight combat, is a fairly "standard" weapon on high performance aircraft, State Department officials say...
...MURRAY KEMPTON (Murray Kempton is a regular commentator on the CBS Radio "Spectrum" series...
...The defamation restriction could therefore be used to justify the withholding of information to which the public should have access...
...But although it may not be racist, it is all the same extremely snobbish to suggest that they have departed from some splendid model of conduct that we held forth to them...
...Bill Douglas believes, as we do...
...So wrote William O.Douglas of an environment he loves...
...The agony inflicted on the Swedish people by their government's "deepening socialism"—as recorded in the Sentinel Star of Orlando, Florida...
...Williams noted, often for such trivial offenses as "not trying hard enough, mistakes in homework, not paying attention, talking without permission, sailing paper airplanes, chewing gum, failure to pay towel fees, refusal to undress for gym, looking out the window...
...There emerged his faith: "The First Amendment is couched in absolute terms—freedom of speech shall not be abridged____The Framers of the Constitution knew human nature as well as we do...
...Some of the political risks that concerned the Senate remain intact...
...There are only three things wrong with nuclear power," Skinner noted: "It's unsafe, it's uneconomical, and it's unnecessary...
...Free speech has occupied an exalted position because of the high service it has given our society...
...Participants urged a coalition with those demanding nuclear disarmament, a halt in the liquid metal fast-breeder program which would require widespread use of weapons-grade plutonium, and repeal of the Price-Anderson Act, providing tax-supported insurance against nuclear accidents...
...The bulk of the intelligence was gathered during Nelson Rockefeller's fifteen years as governor...
...Perhaps Bill Douglas's awesomely turbulent mountains made him...
...Nelson argues that his amendment, which now has fourteen co-sponsors, would enable Congress to evaluate arms sales in advance and to set guidelines on arms transfer policy...
...In a 1957 speech at the Columbia Law Review banquet he said,'' Faith in America is faith in her free institutions or it is nothing...
...As George Wald observed in these pages last month, we are saturated, surfeited, with catastrophic disclosures...
...He stressed that atomic power plant orders have dropped dramatically since the capital market has tightened and anti-nuclear organizing has become increasingly effective...
...The WashingtonPost WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation began in the early 1950s to compile a secret list, known as the "Security Index," of American citizens who were "targeted for detention" in a national emergency under the Subversive Activities Control Act, according to two sources who claim direct knowledge of the operation...
...The highest priority of the citizen movement," Nader added, "must now be devoted to stopping the Ford Administration's nuclear power bailout program...
...That law required the Federal Government to take permanent custody of the Nixon Presidential materials, thereby reversing the ill-advised agreement between Nixon and GSA Administrator Arthur F. Sampson to give the former President total control...
...You may say that I ain't free, but it don't worry me...
...The danger is that we will be overwhelmed—that paralysis will set in...
...Freedom of movement is basic in our values...
...GSA's first set of proposals, introduced last March, were disapproved by a Senate resolution adopted in September...
...The Senate's action was predicated on two principal concerns...
...The regulations put the lie to that argument...
...Girl Scouts of the St...
...Newsday WASHINGTON—With top-level approval, the FBI carried out hundreds of illegal break-ins under an elaborate "Do Not File" system that kept all trace of the burglaries out of regular Bureau files...
...Nature tried...
...With millions of voters in twenty states supporting initiative campaigns for a nuclear power moratorium and more than 300 citizen groups organizing for alternative energy solutions, Washington may soon have to take Skinner's words seriously...
...TheLos Angeles Times WASHINGTON—Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) charged today the Federal Government has used confidential tax returns as "instruments of harassment" against American citizens...
...WTOP-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., received more than 400 telephone calls protesting its decision to preempt a sports commentary show and instead broadcast President Ford's November 3 news conference...
...I have the most profound respect for the U.S...
...The 1974 Critical Mass group called for a moratorium on power plant construction, but in 1975 the resolutions stressed broader concerns...
...Only three states— New Jersey, Maryland, and Massachusetts—have outlawed the practice...
...First, the GSA's proposals gave the GSA administrator the final decision-making authority...
...On the way, he acquired the reverence for life which led him to vote to strike down the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia, writing, "In ancient Hindu law a Brahmin was exempt from capital punishment...
...From Hope Natural Gas in 1944, where his tough economic analysis required regulation to be fair to the public as well as to the regulated business, to Wunderlich in 1951, he struggled to limit arbitrary power...
...From this perspective, First Amendment freedoms safeguard society from its own folly...
...However awkward, painful, or powerful the despot, the Douglas spirit will always struggle to be free...
...The recess could have lasted twenty days, which would have meant that Congress would not have had any opportunities to block the transfer...
...CHARLES-GENE McDANIEL (Charles-Gene McDaniel is a Chicago-based free-lance writer...
...In addition, it would require the Administration to explain how the sale is justified in terms of U. S. foreign policy objectives, national security, and world peace...
...United Press International WASHINGTON—The FBI attempted for years to discredit the late Dr...
...Legislators may turn deaf ears, formal complaints may be routed endlessly through a bureaucratic maze...
...Like Gershwin's Porgy, his life is a strong bass voice singing, "No matter what you say, I still suits me...
...it cannot become an increasingly potent force...
...Since I should like to think that one or two of my best friends are Palestinians, I have never believed that to be anti-Zionist is automatically to be anti-Semitic...
...He was seventy-six and the true Spirit of '76...
...The New York Times We could go on and on, filling this entire issue of The Progressive with brief excepts from the horrendous catalog of official abuses against liberty and decency that have come to light in recent weeks...
...There was no possibility of escape...
...The Washington Post WASHINGTON—A New Jersey contractor told the House intelligence committee yesterday how—as an FBI provocateur—he led a group of thirty antiwar activists in a raid on the Camden draft board and ensuing arrests by waiting agents...
...LEWIS J. PAPER (Lewis J. Paper, until recently legislative counsel to Senator Gaylord Nelson, now practices law in New Jersey...
...The revised regulations do not employ such words as "compromise," "satisfactory," or "embarrassing," and many of the restrictions are now patterned after the more carefully drafted exemptions contained in the Freedom of Information Act...
...Chicago (1949), "Afunctionoffree speech under our system of government is to invite dispute...
...And Thanksgiving dinner may turn out to be the annual stockholders meeting...
...This repellent business is unlikely, then, to have much consequence more serious than to add another cubit to the embarrassment of mankind...
...She suggested that corporal punishment reflects the ' 'lack of imagination, laziness, and rigidity in schools that make little effort to implement the many alternatives to corporal punishment...
...The country cannot afford another cover-up...
...TURNABOUT...
...Robert Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine, has been named Brand?is University's "Publisher of the Year...
...The regulations become effective within ninety legislative days unless either house of Congress expresses its disapproval by a simple resolution...
...Under that law, GSA is required to propose regulations to govern public access to the materials...
...But, she added, "Corporal punishment of children, the intentional infliction of pain on the weakest members of the human species, is not merely an unquestioned practice...
...This review is of critical importance to the American political process—not only because the regulations ultimately adopted will determine how much the public learns about the Nixon Presidency, but also because those regulations represent the Government's first attempt to establish rules on public access to a President's files...
...Back at Columbia, he taught with Karl Llewelyn...
...It was Gerald Ford, then a member of the House of Representatives, who in 1970 led a dangerous attack on the independence of the judiciary in his effort to impeach William 0. Douglas...
...they gave the Government the power arbitrarily to restrict unclassified material—even to researchers who had the necessary security clearance...
...Consider Douglas as an uninhibited pioneer, come out of the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, reaching for a fuller freedom...
...Istarted to rise...
...and it will be something rather worse if, in degrading itself, the United Nations has encouraged the Russians further to degrade their Jewish subjects...
...Not only is "cruel and unusual punishment" of children sanctioned in fact and now in law—the qualifier "reasonable" notwithstanding—children also are punished arbitrarily without "due process" protection, Dr...
...Among Western nations, only the United Kingdom, parts of Switzerland, Germany, and the United States sanction it...
...And dissenting in 1968 in Epton v. New York, he wrote, "Society, like an ill person, often pretends it is well or tries to hide its sickness...
...Williams reported...
...but even so we were forced to listen politely while he aired the most implausible grievance that a Jewish storekeeper in Cairo had once refused to sell him a radio because he was wearing an Egyptian army uniform...
...We hear the haunting final chorus of the movie Nashville: "It don't worry me, it don't worry me...
...The Washington Post NEW YORK—The New York State Police have amassed extensive non-criminal intelligence records with data on hundreds of thousands of private citizens and organizations, including prominent elected officials and dissenting political groups...
...Gertrude J. Williams of Clayton, Missouri, editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology, noted that corporal punishment of prisoners, sailors, employes, mental patients, and wives has been outlawed over the years, as has the beating of animals...
...He is the author of "The Promise and the Performance: The Leadership of John F. Kennedy, " just published by Crown...
...Where is the outcry...
...The regulations initially proposed that all purely personal items—such as family letters—be restricted from public access unless they were included within the President's files and reflected on Nixon's conduct as President...
...The sale was fairly routine as weapons transactions go these days...
...in a concerted, undercover campaign that included bugging his hotel rooms and even mailing a blackmail letter that King took as a suicide suggestion, Senate investigators disclosed yesterday...
...The Capitol protest was the final touch on Critical Mass '75, attended in mid-November by more than 1,500 scientists, citizen activists, environmentalists, and others concerned about the nation's energy policy...
...CONSERVATION...
...He is arguing in Federal court that the law would expose every secret—both official and personal—contained in his files, thereby destroying the confidentiality required for Government decisionmaking...
...Capitol...
...The north wind made the Vikings, we are told...
...John Ehrlichman says his forthcoming novel—which features a devious President, a scheming CIA chief, and a tangled web of conspiracies and coverups—bears no resemblance to real persons or events...
...In Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940), he voted to uphold a compulsory, state-imposed flag salute by school children...
...When he was hungry and broke, he was fed by vagrants in hobo jungles along the railways of America...
...they want their Supreme Court justices, even more than their high priests, held in check by popular prejudice...
...While "spanking" is the word most often used to describe corporal punishment in schools, "beating" is frequently more appropriate, in view of the weapons used against children...
...In addition to this sensible restriction, GSA proposed that material could also be restricted if it "would tend to embarrass, damage, or harass living persons...
...It has never been harnessed...
...Presumably it would give the administrator sole discretion to rule on, among other matters, a petition by Nixon asserting executive privilege over certain materials...
...They have the roar of torrents and avalanches in their throats...
...at times his life...
...Legalized Child Abuse During the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Chicago last September, Suzanne Bordin-Sandler of Melville, New York, observed in a symposium that increasing reports of child abuse are part of the "general increase in tolerance of violence...
...It was not mere breath that this preacher uttered...
...He sought to enlarge the vistas of freedom beyond speech...
...their initiative has been sapped by free medical care, child care, education, low-cost housing, and countless other benefits...
...We have, I fear, taken in practice the same position...
...they were the words of life...
...into the face of an avalanche...
...William O. Douglas: Daring to Live Free Justice William 0. Douglas, who retired from the Supreme Court of the United States in November after serving longer than any justice in the nation's history, was The Progressive's choice for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1948...
...Is this to be the final epitaph of American liberty...
...He will be one of the last free people if we cannot learn from his life, a life that ranks in its stretching for freedom with those of Jefferson, Lincoln, Whitman, and Brandeis...
...And it held that a teacher may spank a child even if the parents object...
...My Almanac ranks freedom to eat with freedom to speak, the right to property with the right of privacy, the right to work with freedom from racial discrimination...
...Playing poker, telling stories, singing western songs, he won the affection of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who chose him for the U.S...
...The new nations have no one but themselves to blame...
...His dissents, like those of Justice Louis Brandeis whose chair he assumed, have tended to become the supreme law of the land...
...archivist, the librarian of Congress, a representative of the Justice Department, and a representative of the American Society of Archivists...
...The Progressive'stov'mg editor, MiltonMayer, spenta year in Germany shortly after World War II, talking to Germans about their experiences during the Nazi years...
...Adams subtly became a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength.'' It is a place he loves, a place to which he returns for strength...
...Abzug promised the group she would use her position on the House Government Operations Committee to push for a Congressional investigation and to work "to rid the country of the threat of the nuclear weapon and the nuclear power plant...
...In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), concerning the prohibition of birth control devices, he wrote, "The First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from government intrusion____We deal with a rightof privacy older than the Bill of Rights____Marriage is intimate to the degree of being sacred...
...State Department officials say they knew the sale was being contemplated, but were unaware that notification had been sent to Congress during a recess...
...that, contrary to the claims of the totalitarians, the human longing for food and freedom, security and significance, are attainable through the intelligent, democratic harnessing of our human and natural resources for the greater good of all.'' The following comment on Justice Douglas was written for The Progressive by Ramsey Clark, former U.S...
...The extent of a community's respect of the human rights of all...
...One Democratic Presidential candidate seems to understand the implications of the national alternative energy movement: Fred Harris telegraphed his support of Critical Mass '75, and pledged himself to a nuclear moratorium and development of non-nuclear, decentralized energy systems...
...the administrator could also determine alone what, if any, general restrictions (like "national security") should be placed on those Presidential materials retained...
...Supreme Court," Ford began, and then launched an assault on Douglas for his "liberal opinions," his defense of First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, and films, his authorship of articles on rebellion and revolution in'' notorious publications," his association with a foundation of dubious repute and with—in the same breath—the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions...
...Among his almost thirty books are Strange Lands and Friendly People, Beyond the High Himalayas, North from Malaya, Russian Journey, Exploring the Himalayas, West of the Indus, My Wilderness, The Pacific West, East of Katahdin, Muir of the Mountains, A Wilderness Bill of Rights, Farewell to Texas, Toward a Global Federation, and Go East, Young Man...
...Far more often than he changed his view to seek a greater freedom, others changed theirs and joined his to the same end...
...This meant he would grow and change without embarrassment, as a free person does...
...The mountains of the Pacific Northwest are tangled, wild, remote, and high...
...It has been outlawed in Poland since 1783, and is banned in the Soviet Union and all countries of Eastern Europe, as well as in Japan, Israel, and most Western European countries...
...The Nelson amendment would further require the Administration to submit arms impact statements on how a prospective sale would effect regional power balances, arms control negotiations, U.S...
...The GSA administrator, however, would retain power over matters involving restrictions based on an individual's legal and constitutional rights...
...In Beilan v. Board of Public Education seven years later, he observed, "When we make the belief of the citizen the basis of government action, we move toward the concept of total security...
...Discountfng some hyperbole, this seems fair enough...
...One such alternative is a classrom responsive to the needs of children, a classroom in which the teacher is more interested in education than in power and has the confidence that she or he can be an effective educator...
...I ended on a narrow ledge lying on my stomach, uninjured...
...Some local districts, including Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, have also outlawed the practice...
...AMANDA SPAKE (Amanda Spake, a free-lance writer based in Washington, is writing a book about nulcear power plants...
...In Being an American he wrote," We may never reach perfection in our practice of the ideals of the Bill of Rights...
...IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE...
...Some enormous energy possesses the man...
...As we learned in Vietnam, a policy that has fundamental deficiencies can not be made whole by the infusion of billions of dollars...
...All the same he was thererafter larded with compliments by spokesmen for our democratic values ranging from President Ford to the mayor of Chicago...
...at times his liberty of movement...
...The Washington Post WASHINGTON—A bipartisan, select committee of the Senate reported today that officials of the U.S...
...Williams pointed out, "as American as cherry pie...
...HIGHER LEARNING...
...RAMSEY CLARK Congress and the Right to Know Congress is currently reviewing the General Services Administration's proposed regulations to provide public access to the Nixon Presidential materials...
...In the latter case he wrote in dissent:'' Law has reached its finest moments when it has freed from the unlimited discretion of some ruler, some civil or military official, some bureaucrat...
...So far, President Ford has repeatedly refused to meet with Nader and anti-nuclear scientists on energy policy...
...The lower court held that the student must be warned before being spanked and that corporal punishment must be reasonable, but it did not define what is reasonable...
...JUDITH MILLER (Judith Miller is The Progressive's Washington correspondent...
...He tells us of it:' 'Then the accident happened...
...In another dissent, Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak (1952), he concluded, "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all liberty...
...Then what are we to say about our Department of Commerce, which not long ago distributed on Iraq's behalf an invitation to American businessmen to bid on a housing project on the stated conditions that all bidders must agree to abide by the Arab boycott of Israel...
...Our Ambassador to the United Nations has described the supporters of the anti-Zionist resolution as obscene and infamous...
...Dissenting in Berger v. New York (1967) against the most pervasive invader, the "bug," he wrote, "It places a government agent in the bedroom, in the business conference, in the social hour, in the lawyers' conference—everywhere...
...the First Amendment does not permit the censorship of expression not brigaded with illegal action...
...His books Democracy and Finance, Being an American, The Right of the People, America Challenged, A Living Bill of Rights, Democracy 's Manifesto, Anatomy of Liberty, Mr...
...FIRST THINGS FIRST...
...The outcome will surely influence the disposition of future Presidential materials...
...Sixteen years later, in the Fanny Hill case, he wrote...
...Government instigated assassination plots against two foreign leaders and became embroiled in plotting that led to the deaths of three others...
...Under GSA's initial proposal, for example, materials could be kept secret if their release would "disclose or compromise" classified national security information...
...His very freedom stirs hateful opposition...
...In the 1954 foreword to his Almanac of Liberty, Douglas wrote...
...The GSA has also failed completely to rectify the second major shortcoming cited by the Senate when it rejected the first set of proposals: the vague descriptions of the restrictions to be applied...
...The Congressional review is being made pursuant to the "Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act," introduced by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Democrat, and signed into law by President Ford last December...
...About 80 per cent of American schools permit corporal punishment, Dr...
...Bordin-Sandler could hardly have known then that this trend would soon be supported by the highest authority of the law...
...But what would be the use...
...The four Senators who voted against his confirmation saw him as a "reactionary tool of Wall Street...
...He wrote a book about what he learned, and the title almosttolditall: They Thought They WereFree...
...The revised regulations also require the restriction of material considered to be defamatory...
...This is an enormous loophole...
...SPIRIT OF '76...
...That he came so close to the Presidency, that he was one of two found acceptable to FDR in 1944 and was probably preferred, is a tribute to the possibilities of freedom in America...
...The second is far more sweeping: It would require the Administration to submit an annual report of anticipated sales to individual countries for the next fiscal year, as well as information about major weapons systems and defense services being sold abroad...
...Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the grandly genteel, quiet, and tranquil Franconia range slowly forging the face of a noble, lofty, mild, and sweet man "whose thoughts and feelings gushed up with such a natural freedom...
...It is the will to be free...
...The following month, ignoring all legal arguments and best psychological knowledge, the Supreme Court let stand, and thus gave legal status to, a lower court ruling that a North Carolina teacher had the right to paddle a student for misbehaving...
...He would later vote to strike down a District of Columbia ordinance subjecting to arrest "any person wandering abroad and lodging in the open air not giving a good account of himself...
...If they are understood, the ugliness of communism is revealed, its deceit and cunning are exposed, the nature of its activities becomes apparent, and the chances of its success less likely...
...So might it be written of him...
...With no funds, he entered and was graduated from Columbia Law School, then spent two years with the Cravath firm on Wall Street...
...There has, in fact, been achieved a de facto moratorium on nuclear expansion in the United States," said Ralph Nader, sponsor of the conference, noting gains by activist energy groups...
...it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions...
...in effect, that language would give the Executive branch unchecked power to withhold material for no reason other than the political embarrassment it might cause...
...Who are the leaders prepared to insist that it won't happen here...
...No justice in history has had the sure grasp of so many fields of such complex law: businesss regulation, antitrust, government contracts, eminent domain, natural resources...
...The laws on defamation are extremely vague...
...Of police searches, he wrote, dissenting, in Warden v. Hayden (1967), "The Framers, who were as knowledgeable as we, knew what police surveillance meant and how the practice of rummaging through one's personal effects could destroy freedom...
...Therefore, he dissented in pornography cases, too, "not because, as frequently charged, I relish 'obscenity.' I have dissented before and now because I think the First Amendment bars all kinds of censorship...
...Today he strives to free himself from the bonds of this stroke...
...Seattle Police Chief Robert Hanson has acknowledged that his department kept intelligence files on some 150 prominent Americans, including the late J. Edgar Hoover...
...It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions...
...InEverson v. Board of Education (1947), Douglas voted with the majority of five upholding the use of public funds to bus students to parochial schools...
...Congress received what the Administration considers notification of the sale in mid-October: the type and number of missiles being sold were classified...
...It pointed out that "the resort to corporal punishment tends to reduce the likelihood of employing more effective, humane, and creative ways of interacting with children.'' Psychologists participating in the symposium last September also pointed out that the difference between spanking children and abusing them is only one of degree...
...They speak of his roots in nature and movement, as do his opinions in Edwards v. California (1941) and Kent v. Dulles (1958), where he wrote, "The conclusion that the right of free movement is a right of national citizenship stands on firm historical ground...
...Part of that site is a garbage dump today, but City Manager Keith Abort says it will eventually be devoted to "open space and recreational use...
...GSA's subsequent remedial efforts are only partially successful...
...That seems, in fact, to be precisely what is happening: Americans learn that their Government has systematically spied on its own people, in violation of the law and the Constitution...
...Hawthorne's hero became the likeness of the Great Stone Face because he spent his life " giving to the people of what was in his heart and mind...
...Ford concluded that Douglas should be impeached' 'right now,'' and that an impeachable offense is "whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be...
...Conference participants supported development of non-nuclear alternatives to the energy shortage—solar, wind, garbage, and geothermal power—and abandonment of the U.S...
...NO COMMENT MOM AND POP, INC...
...The Sidewinder H is the air-to air missile for the A4 aircraft, which Kuwait purchased before Congress had any say at all in the weapons transfers...
...But then the Soviet Union has seldom shown much respect for the United Nations, even when it was deserved, and has even less often needed any excuse for maltreating heretics...
...defense production capabilities and preparedness, and war reserve stocks...
...Recalling his missionary father's funeral when he was six, he tells us, " My throat choked up, and I started to cry____Then I happened to see Mount Adams, towering over us...
...Senator William Proxmire reports that Frank Zarb, the administrator of the Federal Energy Administration, spent $25,000 and used almost 19,000 gallons of fuel in the first ten months of 1975 "jetting about the country in chartered aircraft urging businessmen and civic groups to economize on energy and fuel...
...In 1970, the city council of Whittier, California, voted to set aside 120 choice acres for a Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library...
...at times, his privacy...
...In Barsky v. Regents (1954), he included the right to work in his dissent: "I repeat, it does a man little good to stay alive and free and propertied, if he cannot work...
...Association with Charles Clark, Thurman Arnold, Wesley Sturges, and others helped direct his enormous energy, not contain it...
...It is an obvious center for protest____The right to petition is not limited to writing a letter or sending a telegram...
...Since the administrator is a political appointee serving at the pleasure of the President, all this raised a serious risk that, either in appearance or reality, partisan political considerations would influence the administrator's decisions...
...Conference attention also focused on the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing plant, under construction by Allied General in Barnwell, South Carolina...
...they look the other way...
...In its revised regulations, submitted in October, GSA addressed part of the problem by creating a "Presidential Materials Review Board," which would consist of the GSA administrator, the U.S...
...But William 0. Douglas is an endangered species, as he struggles to overcome his partial paralysis at age seventy-seven...
...Arms Sales Oversight A recent sale of Sidewinder (desert snake) missiles to Kuwait illustrates the ease with which the Ford Administration has been able to slither past Congressional scrutiny of arms transfers...
...On the other hand, the new regulations allow any interested agency head to object to any researcher's access to the material, even if the researcher has the necessary security clearance...
...Dissenting in Dennis because he found no acts coupled with speech, he said of the writings of Stalin, Lenin, Marx, and Engels: "Those books are to Soviet Communism what Mein Kampf was to Nazism...
...Douglas, dissenting, wrote that prisons are ' 'one of the seats of government, whether it be the Tower of London, the Bastille, or a small county jail...
...It intrudes upon the privacy of those not even suspected of crime and intercepts the most intimate of conversation...
...That should be our choice today, no matter how distasteful to us the pamphlet of Beauharnais may be," he wrote in Beauhar-nais v. Illinois (1952...
...These range up to oar-sized paddles and include leather straps, belts, and even, reportedly, cattle prods...
...It would be in the nation's best interests if the courts were to recognize the inherent weakness of Nixon's argument and reject it...
...Marchers demanded a new investigation of the death of Karen Silkwood, the twenty-eight-year-old plutonium factory worker who was killed in a suspicious auto accident near the Kerr McGee plant in Crescent, Oklahoma...
...and its opponents as "the decent countries...
...News release from the International Cultural Foundation, one of the far-flung enterprises of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon: "Tomorrow's family may have a chairman of the board and president rather than a father and mother...
...then, at Yale, he taught under Dean Robert M. Hutchins, who has been his close friend since...
...The safety of atomic plants, their attendant reprocessing, mining, milling, fuel facilities, as well as the threat of nuclear terrorism, remained grave concerns in the minds of participants...
...at times his freedom of thought...
...Attorney General...
...I lay paralyzed with pain—twenty-three of twenty-four ribs broken...
...His words had power, because they accorded with his thoughts...
...Under the GSA's plan, the administrator alone could decide which materials should be identified as "Presidential" and thus be retained by the Government...
...Lincoln and the Negroes, Freedom of the Mind, The Bible and the Schools, Points of Rebellion spell out as comprehensive a concept of freedom as we know...
...Time and energy must be devoted to halting exports of nuclear plants from the United States to the rest of the world under conditions that are destined to lead to nuclear weapons proliferation," Nader warned...
...Since Benjamin Franklin, no major public figure in America has been as free of the tyrannous chains of custom, or public opinion, as Douglas...
...But for those keeping score, some 300 Sidewinders, plus spare parts and servicing, will be provided to the oil-rich sheikdom for $32 million...
...Although GSA and Congress may have further discussions concerning the details, it is clear now that the final regulations will protect the confidentiality of both legitimate national security information and purely personal matters...
...and his thoughts had reality and depth, because they harmonized with the life which he had always lived...
...The teachers are afraid of the big ones...
...infamy and obscenity are matters of taste too small to divide us from such allies...
...Now an item in the Energy Research and Development Agency (ERDA) budget, the once-commercially funded facility is thought to involve one of the "dirtiest" technologies in the nuclear fuel cycle...
...William 0. Douglas is an authentic voice of freedom because he dares to live free...
...they shrug...
...the measure of its progress in civilization____"He predicted America's future achievements " will be a monument to the faith of man in man and in the principles of freedom...
...But it is the law of freedom that has been his guiding faith...
...Anwar Sadat is, to be sure, comparatively moderate...
...Americans discover that their civil servants have operated as an international gang of would-be assassins: they go about their business...
...The situation could have been worse, though...
...The American Psychological Association's council of representatives, its policy-making body, voted at its winter meeting last March to oppose the use of corporal punishment in schools, juvenile facilities, child care nurseries, and all other child care institutions...
...There is no redemption for whom the law touches...
...But if it is, how are we to describe Egypt, which was a prime mover in the anti-Zionist resolution and whose president was so recently our honored guest...
...But there is no earthly reason why...
...They chose liberty...
...But Brazil, like Turkey and Indonesia, will go on being the beneficiary of our military and economic aid...
...In Dennis v. United States (1951), often considered his "outstanding utterance," he casually assured his readers that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment...
...Whatever the merit of individual provisions, the GSA regulations do much to undermine Nixon's legal challenge to the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act...
...At times it has been his property that has been invaded...
...It is the kind of responsibility Congress should waste no time in assuming...
...He survived those often mind-narrowing experiences and returned for a year of law practice at Yakima...
...Speaking of "the power to sterilize," he noted mSkinners...
...The Board would make the final decisions with regard to the retention of material and the application of general restrictions...
...The Sidewinder timing shows the need for a strengthening of Congressional power to scrutinize such sales...
...Americans are informed that Federal agents have taken it upon themselves to badger dissidents, deprive them of theirjobs, even wreck marriages...
...He became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, neither a bastion of liberty nor an equal opportunity employer...
...It was an important moment in the history of the anti-nuclear power movement, a forming of political coalitions and the first anti-nuclear march on Washington...
...Although seemingly reasonable, this last qualification could prove troublesome...
...Corporal punishment is, after all, as Dr...
...It was a giant whose head touched the sky...
...Soon strong again, growing, and freer than ever, he pursued his hostility toward every form of tyranny over the mind, the body, the soul of humanity...
...We see a coming together of those who fight for a safe planet, those who fight for safe working conditions, and those who fight as women and the men who support their fight...
...The regulations provided further that any researcher with proper security clearance would still have to sign an affidavit, "satisfactory to the administrator and to the heads of agencies having subject matter interest in the material," that the researcher would not "publish, disclose, or otherwise compromise" the classified material...
...The Supreme Court has delayed the implementation of a more humane learning environment and the cycle of school violence grows more vicious...
...it is piously proclaimed and actively advocated as being 'good' for children...
...Where is the movement to restore our freedom...
...Any evidence of an abuse of power is bound to include material which someone— but especially the people named—could deem defamatory...
...In Adderly v. Florida (1966), a Supreme Court divided five to four upheld convictions of student demonstrators for trespass on jail premises in protest of racial segregation there...
...Critical Mass 75 "There is a statement being made here tonight," said Representative Bella Abzug as she addressed a crowd of 500 gathered on the steps of the U.S...
...As the fourth New Deal appointee in two years, he joined Hugo Black, Stanley Reed, and Felix Frankfurter to labor in a period of transition, one that offered no clear road map...
...He is forever deprived of a basic liberty...
...Mary's School troop in Richland Center, Wisconsin, spent sixty hours fabricating a copy of the Declaration of Independence out of 8,000 alphabet noodles...
...But in practice, it is usually the weakest among the children who get walloped...
...More interesting than the sale itself, however, was its timing...
...The $100 billion Energy Independence Authority proposed by the Ford Administration, as well as several other billion-dollar subsidies for the energy industry, would alleviate the capital squeeze that has plagued recent nuclear development...
...Participants' concern that citizen activity against the industry will be subverted by a massive increase in Federal funding was summarized by Scott Skinner, a Vermont environmentalist and an organizer for a recent bill passed by his state's legislature that requires state approval of all nuclear licensing in Vermont...
...GSA must continue proposing regulations until Congress approves...
...Like the good Germans, we continue to think we are free, while the walls of dossiers, the machinery of repression, the weapons of political assassination pile up around us...
...In evil or reckless hands it can cause races or types which are inimical to the dominant group to wither and disappear...
...It may be his freedom...
...Another vague restriction involved personal information...
...Since existing law gives Congress twenty calendar (not working) day s in which to disapprove a prospective sale, the legislators had only ten days toveto the transaction, which, typically, they did not do...
...They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty...
...When he was stricken by infantile paralysis as a child, his mother massaged him tirelessly, fifteen minutes every two hours, slowly liberating legs, first useless, which have carried him many miles...
...fission power program, the cost of which may increasingly be borne by the taxpayers...
...Three years later he plainly confessed his error...
...United Press International WASHINGTON—DrugaddictsataFederal rehabilitation center in Kentucky were "paid off ' in morphine and others narcotics for taking part in experiments there during the 1950s which were funded by the Central Intelligence Agency, witnesses told a Senate hearing Friday...
...While domestic atomic expansion may have slowed, exports of the technology have increased...
Vol. 40 • January 1976 • No. 1
