Pornography ruling pleases prosecutors across Ohio
Ohio prosecutors hailed a U S Supreme Court decision applying local community standards to determine obscenity in books and films. Store owners closed shops and banners urged caution while civil libertarians warned of increased repression and courtroom battles.
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Columbus
Ohio
U.S. Supreme Court
Stanley Marks
Cincinnati
Supreme Court
Daniel Johnson
High Court
Johnson
Midwest
Hamilton County
Simon Leis Jr
Allen Brown
United States
Dubuque
Benson Wolman
Plumbers Probe Set By House
The House plans to end closed door sessions as witnesses testify while hearings into the Watergate affair expand. A separate inquiry by the House Internal Security Committee will probe why the White House formed the plumbers group. Martha Mitchell, under media pressure, left her Fifth Avenue home in a station wagon with suitcases.
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Howard H. Baker
R-Tenn
Dean
Watergate
E. Howard Hunt
Richard Schord
DMO
White House
Plumbers
Daniel Ellsberg
Nixon
Pentagon
Ellsberg
New York
Lawrence F. O’brien
Archibald Cox
Mitchell
Martha
Fifth Avenue
Martha Mitchell
Sandra Dobbs
Law Officers Across U S Hail Obscenity Ruling
Prosecutors and police praise the Supreme Court decision widening obscenity definitions and urging local communities to set standards. Civil libertarians decry it as a setback for freedom of speech while publishers and theater owners warn of mounting legal burdens and consequences.
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Larry Salmon
Floyd County
State Bar of Georgia
Arkansas
Jim Guy Tucker
New York City
Bald Knob
Ark
Melvin Wulf
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Tom Ferrell
Esquire Magazine
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Byron White
John F. Kennedy
Bal Siat Ui
House
Internal Security Committee
U.S
Associated Press
Florida
Ray Marky
Chicago
Charles Levy Circulating Co
Playboy
Penthouse
Ralph G. Haddon
Charlotte
N.C
Trico Appliances
W. Columbus St
Nelsonville
Frigidaire
Sovyman
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Market Street
Parkersburg
W. Va
Drexel
Bishopsgate
England
Jersman
Athens
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