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State of Siege. After long and bitter debate, Congress sided with Ramos, declared that "Cafe Filho's previously recognized impediment remains effective until further deliberation by Congress." Cafe Filho then asked the Supreme Court to void Congress' decision. It seemed likely that the court, on constitutional grounds, might have to decide in Cafe Filho's favor. To bar that embarrassment. President Ramos called upon Congress to vote a state of siege, a modified form of martial law that suspends, along with some other rights, the right of recourse to a court injunction against actions of the government...
Parker added that driver's licenses from South Dakota and Montana are void in Massachusetts, and that persons from these states driving any car except their own would be considered to be driving without a license, which is a criminal offense...
...court did not hand down its decision until July 6. But when it came, it said in blunt language that Brattle Films, Inc., had won without trouble. Justice Wilkins wrote in the decision, "We think that (the Sunday censorship law) is void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments...It is unthinkable that there is a power, absent as to secular days, to require the submission to advance scrutiny by governmental authority of newspapers to be published on Sunday, or sermons to be preached...
...selection of poor discussion topics drove away large numbers of supporters. One of the Athenacum's final meetings discussed "advertising," a subject only slightly less void of general interest than the University's football finances...
...have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My government refuses to accept any intervention of the U.N. . . . My government will consider as null and void any recommendation which the Assembly might make in this connection...