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...opinion, also made no mention of embassy bugging. White argued that the adversary system entitles the defendant to see all the records of improper eavesdropping, and if it seems worthwhile, to try to prove that the eavesdropping has "tainted" the Government's case. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Abe Fortas generally shared White's view. But on the other hand, Fortas said, the judge alone should be allowed to decide whether to turn over to the defense any portion of the record that the Government claims would, if disclosed, damage "national security interests...
More often than not, their queries were answered fully. In Saigon, the businessmen conferred with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commander of American forces in Viet Nam. As one businessman summed it up afterwards, Abrams "made no claims and promised no quick victories. He merely demonstrated that we were in control of the situation." South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu spoke with confidence about the war effort. Asked by one guest whether South Vietnamese troops would soon bear enough of the burden of fighting to allow American troops to go home, Thieu answered with emphatic brevity...
...five junior-and senior-high teen-agers who had been temporarily suspended from their schools for making that quiet demonstration in December 1965 were Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker, children of a Methodist minister who works for the pacifist American Friends Service Committee. Writing for the majority, Justice Abe Fortas declared that the issue was not a frivolous one, such as a boy's hair style or the length of a girl's skirt. By preventing the children from expressing a political opinion, he said, the school officials had violated the right of free speech...
...Crime Monday (Honest Abe...
...classic genre, Director Robert Mulligan occasionally misfires. But he is saved, somewhat surprisingly, by Peck, who is in private life an avid collector of Lincoln memorabilia. With flashes of ironic humor and his customary rigid dignity, he escapes the boundaries of the role and gives it an honest, Abe-like stature. The rest of the cast is resolutely unglamorous; even Saint has the hollow eyes and concave face of a woman who has been out on the plains too long...