Douglas Keeps Seat Amid California Case Over Smith Taft Records
Supreme Court Justice William C. Douglas, frail after a stroke, denies California access to federal grand jury transcripts in the Arnholt Smith and Phillip Taft matter. He stays on the bench, suspending the case with a stay while public and legal questions continue.
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Wash
Supreme Court
William C. Douglas
California
C. Arnholt Smith
Phillip A. Taft
Douglas
Goose Prairie
Cascade Mountains
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington
D.C
New York City
William Douglas Jr
Postal Service
U.S
Doug Simon
Smith and Taft
Simon
San Diego
Smitha Ft
Smith
Toft
Washington, D.C
High Court
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Caribbean
Walter Pen
Walter Reed
Judge refuses to jail Hearst case witnesses
A federal judge in Harrisburg denied the government’s bid to jail two witnesses for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the Patricia Hearst case. Micki Scott and Martin Miller had immunity but still refused to cooperate citing alleged FBI wiretaps and harassment. The judge called the immunity hearing procedure improper and allowed a future in court review on the harassment claim.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Patricia Hearst
FBI
U.S
Micki McGee Scott
Jack
Martin S. Miller
Scotts
Pennsylvania
Miss Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
R. Dixon Herman
Scott
Miller
Herman
New Heroin Epidemic Seen Says Bartels
John R. Bartels Jr., former head of the DEA, warned Washington that Turkey resuming poppy cultivation risks a new heroin epidemic. He criticized U S drug policy and claimed the State Department treats narcotics control as a yo yo. he doubted Turkish controls will work and said U S allies might not assist. He said the United States never discussed narcotics with Henry Kissinger and noted possible Turkish cooperation if asked.
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John R. Bartels Jr
Drug Enforcement Agency
Turkey
Bartels
United States
U.S
State Department
Ford
Henry Kissinger
DEA
West
Germany
Experts to examine gun in RFK slaying
Judge Robert A. Wenke ordered a reevaluation of the evidence in the 1968 Kennedy assassination case. Seven ballistics experts will testify next Tuesday on the gun bullets and fragments used to convict Sirhan Sirhan as part of a possible reopening of the matter.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
Sirhan Sirhan
Wenke
Nex
Kennedy
Ambassador Hotel
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