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...American Society of Newspaper Editors wanted the ABA's House of Delegates to postpone decisions so that the media could study how jurors are influenced by publicity. But the ABA rightly decided that their committees three-year study justified immediate action. The committee injury documented a problem even media representatives acknowledge is critical: far too often, defendants, are convicted on the basis of what jurors read in newspapers or hear on T.V. instead of what happens in court. Some of this information is never intended for jurors-such as pre-trial hearings on the admissibly of evidence-and none...
...government, headed by Oxford-educated Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, 34, has moved its headquarters south to the dreary provincial town of Aba. Ojukwu's agents in Lisbon have bought millions of dollars worth of arms and ammunition, which reach the rebels at night via the Portuguese island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea. Biafran students recently organized noisy pro-secessionist demonstrations at the United Nations in New York and in downtown London. Biafra's lone television station continued to end its program day each evening with a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome...
Despite the meticulous preparation of the report, policemen, attorneys, and newsmen have reacted with suspicion, indignation, and frothing anger. Newsmen have compared the ABA's action to the American Medical Association's interminable lobby against medicare...
...members of the Committee are not protecting a selfish interest by wishing to limit freedom of the press. The eleven members include three former ABA presidents, two law school deans, two former U.S. attorney generals, and a Supreme Court justice. A wild, wide-roaming press probably exposes more criminals than a press limited by their proposals; the former would be more in their inter- est when they serve as criminal prosecutors...
Judge Reardon, now 56 years old, is still alarmed; he thinks of his work with the ABA Committee as an effort to stop the trend he has long seen in American government. "We are moving away from the rule of law. I remember quite well what I said in Sanders Theatre that night. I would say it is still true. Our daily living has become too complex. Professionally trained people are moving away from involvement in government. Bound up in intense specialties, they lose sight of the larger object of what is good for our democracy. What we need, perhaps...