Supreme Court rules press not liable for political hyperbole
The Supreme Court broadened First Amendment protections for the press by ruling that reporting exaggerated charges against public figures as political hyperbole cannot be held liable. In a unanimous decision written by Justice Stewart, the court overturned a $17,500 libel verdict against Greenbelt News Review for calling a developer's efforts to obtain zoning variances “blackmail” during an Open City Council debate.
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N.Y. Times News Service
Washington
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Potter Stewart
Greenbelt
Charles S. Bresler
Bresler
Greenbelt News Review
Maryland
Court of Appeals
Stewart
Byron R. White
White
High Court
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United States Court of Appeals
Third Circuit
Millville
N.J
Delaware
Bishop Processing Company
Bishop Company
National Labor Relations Board
Mountain View
Calif
Raytheon Corporation
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Thurgood Marshall
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Harry A. Blackmun
Senate
Eighth Circuit
War funds cutoff drives McGovern Hatfield amendment
The five chief sponsors of the plan to end the Indochina War are all veterans with combat service. Senators McGovern Hughes Church Hatfield and Goodell back a cutoff of U S military aid to Indochina by December 3 1970 with full troop withdrawal by June 30 1971. Mansfield a cosponsor notes most signers are ex servicemen.
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UPI
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Air Force
George S. McGovern
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Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
Frank Church
Idaho
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Ore
Charles E. Goodell
N.Y
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Marine Corps
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Indochina
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McGovern
Wall Street Journal Dispute Hits Dow Jones Distribution
In New York Chicago and Los Angeles the Wall Street Journal remains unavailable due to a dispute between Newspaper Deliverers Union and Dow Jones Publications. A New Jersey production and dispatch point prompted subcontracting changes without New York local approval.
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Tional Observer
Daily Journal
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N.J
New Jersey
New York Union
Protesters Arrested in South Africa Demonstration
In Johannesburg police detained 357 demonstrators, mostly white university students and clergy, for violating riotous assemblies rules while protesting the detention of Africans under the National Terrorism Act. Detentions followed arrests under the Terrorism and Suppression acts with possible penalties up to a year in jail.
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Manson to be sole defense witness in Tate case
Los Angeles informed that Charles Manson is expected to be the only defense witness among the defendants in the Tate murders case set for June 15. Susan Atkins Patricia Krenwinkel Leslie Van Houten face trial. Linda Kasabian may testify for the state to link Manson to a conspiracy behind the killings at Sharon Tate's home and the LaBiancas.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
Susan Atkins
Patricia Krenwinkel
Leslie van Houten
Miss Atkins
Bugliosi
Vietnam war 24 hour truce ends with renewed offensives
Allied forces resume operations after a Buddha’s birthday truce. 61 guerrilla shellings overnight raise civilian casualties. South Vietnam reports 456 terror deaths last week. Pledges from Hanoi call for defeat of U S imperialists. Cambodian fighting near Tram Khnar and Takeo City intensifies as U S and South Vietnamese troops advance with B52 air support. Combat losses tallied include at least 8,000 guerrilla deaths and 1,775 American and South Vietnamese casualties.
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Vietnam
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
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Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Phnom Penh
Tram Khnar
Cambodia
Laos
UPI
Robert C. Miller
Takeo Province
Takeo City
Highway 2
Gulf of Thailand
Wilson Opens General Election Battle for Third Term
London reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the Labour Party launch a general election bid for June 18 seeking a historic third consecutive term. The move follows a surge in popularity amid record wage growth and rising prosperity. Nominations begin June 3 for 630 seats. The new Parliament will elect a speaker on June 29 and be opened by the Queen on July 2.
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UPI
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Wilson
Labor
Britain
Finch Hospitalization Delays His HEW Meeting
Secretary Robert H. Finch underwent extensive neurological tests at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for numbness in his left arm and hand. He was scheduled to address more than 600 HEW employees on civil rights and Southeast Asia but the meeting was postponed after his hospitalization. Finch stressed unwavering enforcement of school desegregation laws and federal funding conditions, and endorsed Nixon's war strategy while opposing diverting military funds to domestic needs.
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UPI
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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Nixon
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Southeast Asia
Army
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