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The article discusses various issues in U.S. politics. The U.S. water supply is discussed, with reference to government control of water pollution, the instituting of standards for water plants, and the use of chlorine for purification. It was revealed that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spied on and investigated political activists. Also discussed is the investigation of the Watergate scandal, including a guilty plea by former White House counsel John Dean.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. U.S. President Gerald Ford has recognized the authority of special prosecutor Leon Jaworski to seek criminal charges against former U.S. president Richard M. Nixon related to covering up the break-in of the Watergate Hotel. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that all parties in class-action suits must be notified of developments with costs paid by the plaintiff.

Focuses on the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution with a ruling in favor for freedom of speech in the U.S. Information on the case of dermatologist Howard Levy, who was court-martialed as he spoke out against the Vietnam war and refused to go to the war; Statement of a federal court of appeals that the court-martial on these grounds was unconstitutional because, under binding Supreme Court decisions, statements of the kind made by Levy could not constitutionally be punished under a catch-all law; Laws made by the U.S. Supreme Court on obscene words and materials; Ruling of the Court that the film "Carnal Knowledge," was obscene under Georgia law and under the new Supreme Court standard so that manager of the movie theater where it was shown could be fined and sentenced to jail for showing the movie; Defense of the Directors Guild of America and the Authors Guild of America, by highlighting the artistic and literary qualities of the film; Pronouncements delivered by the Supreme Court affecting freedom of speech and press.

Focuses on the request of Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski for additional notes, memoranda and tapes of key presidential conversations in the U.S. Request for the telephone conversation of U.S. President Richard Nixon with attorney general Richard Kleindienst; Preparation of the Nixon's counsel to give the prosecutor other requested taped conversations; Irony with the apparent White House compliance; Discussion of the 1972 campaign "dirty tricks"; Fact that the major subject of the Cox inquiry was unlawful campaign contributions and any government actions that may have been taken as a result of specific contributions.

Focuses on political conditions in the U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower's message at the beginning of the new decade; Comments on the basic split in Louisiana between the Protestant rural parishes and Catholic New Orleans and adjacent Parishes; Information on a suit filed in the District of Columbia, against William Costello and this periodical, in which Ralph de Toledano has asked that he be paid $100000, charging infringement of copyright; Death of Albert Camus, who wrote 50 eloquently of the continuing triumph of pointless cruelty in human existence, in an automobile accident.

The article discusses the "Treason Trial" of 156 South Africans now underway in Johannesburg, South Africa. Among the accused are most of the national leaders of the various bodies called the "congresses." There is the African National Congress (ANC), the Indian Congress, the White Congress of Democrats, the Congress of Trade Unions, and the Colored Peoples Organization. One of the most notable of the accused is the President- General of the ANC Albert Luthuli. The Nationalist Government deposed him in 1952 after ordering him to choose between the Congress and the chieftainship. Luthuli was for years a member of the national executive of the Christian Council of South Africa, and visited both the U.S. and India for the Council.

The article presents news briefs and commentary on U.S. politics as of the week of July 11, 1955. The political debate concerning the domestic state and federal energy policy is highlighted. The final report of Herbert Hoover and the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government is discussed. The announcement of Attorney General Herbert Brownell to drop the Owen Lattimore legal trials is explored.

Presents several letters to the editor focusing on the article "New Light on the Lattimore Case," that centers on a lawsuit on professor Owen Lattimore. Criticism of the article in the context of misinformation of evidences in reference to the lawsuit; Justification by the author in reference to the information in the article.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon has announced a temporary freeze on retail prices to combat inflation. The author suggests that the Ervin Select Senate Committee failed to properly interrogate Maurice Stans, finance chairman of the re-election committee for President Nixon, about his activities during the break-in at the Watergate Hotel. The U.S. Senate has approved a legislative bill to provide direct payments to farmers.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. Bernard Barker, a defendant in the break-in of the Watergate Hotel, drew money from a bank account funded by checks sent to the Committee for the Re-election of the President. Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. has dismissed indictments against former government official Daniel Ellsberg regarding the leak of government documents. The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation to cut funding of U.S. bombing in Vietnam.

This article presents news including the depth of a Republican Party campaign, which included the Watergate scandal, and the possibility of President Richard Nixon's previous knowledge of the event, the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, which is restricting the right-of-way for the Alaskan Pipeline, and the order of President Nixon that the Office of Economic Opportunity be shut down and its services spun off to other agencies.

This article presents news including HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger's discussion regarding the avoidance of tax increases and inflation in the United States, the duty of the Ervin Select Senate Committee to lay out the scope of the 1972 Republican Party espionage and sabotage campaign against the Democratic Party and its presidential candidates, and the economic and environmental benefits of geothermal power.

This article presents news including the printing of counterfeit Vietnamese money by those in the United States, the 14-nation meeting in Paris, France, on March 16, 1973, which focused on the value of the dollar and exchange rates for foreign trade, and documents confiscated by the United States Justice Department, which belong to the International Telephone and Telegraph corporation and relate to an obstruction of justice charge.

This article presents news including the release of documents by the United States Congress on the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation obstruction of justice case, a meeting of the Democratic National Committee with Chairman Robert Strauss on March 21, 1973, and the pressure of property tax on land developers in the United States.

The article reports and comments on current events in the news during the week of March 11, 1972. A number of items are covered including a corruption scandal involving the ITT Corporation and the U.S. Republican Party, the results of the Democratic Party primary in New Hampshire and findings by the Environmental Protection Agency that noise is harmful to a significant percentage of Americans.

The article presents commentary on various domestic U.S. politics as of the week of September 11, 1971. Attorney General John Mitchell's views against student voting registration at colleges are analyzed. The indictment of attorney Edward V. Hanrahan for conspiracy to obstruct justice in the investigation of a Black Panthers police raid is discussed. Education programs for mentally handicapped urban children are explored.

Presents information on the legal status of tenants in the U.S. Tenant law and legislation; Problems faced by tenants; Impact of the relationship between tenants and landlords on agriculture; Topic of leases; Details of cases involving breach of lease by the tenant.

The article presents commentary on various domestic U.S. politics and law as of the week of July 3, 1971. The legal case between the Department of Justice and the New York Times over the publishing of Vietnam War documents is discussed in detail. The book "Hopes and Fears of the American People," by J. Irwin Miller is highlighted. A federal ruling banning the distribution of fingerprint records by the Federal Bureau of Investigation outside of crime enforcement is reviewed.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of May 29, 1971. The economic conditions and policies of the country, particularly involving the housing and revenue markets, are discussed. Extensive commentary concerning the need to review the practices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is provided. Senate votes in favor of maintaining troop strength in Europe and involvement in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are analyzed.

Focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court case of trial of Chicago, Illinois-based drug dealer James White for drug dealing who was caught with the help of an informer, Harvey Jackson, of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics. Description of meetings of the informer with White; Information regarding the radio transmitter which Jackson was wearing during meetings with White; Information that White's case has received four full-scale appellate hearings; Decision of the court on the case.

Presents information related to ex-priest Daniel Berrigan who have been convicted of the plot to kidnap U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and blow up heating tunnels in Washington DC. Professional background of Berrigan; Overview of trials against Berrigan in the Supreme Court; Activities of Berrigan that led to his arrest; Attitude of Berrigan toward Blacks in the country; Protests of Berrigan and his priest-brother against Vietnam war.

The article presents political news briefs with commentary for the week of December 19, 1970 in the United States. Lieutenant William L. Calley is on trial at Fort Benning, Georgia and is charged with the murder of 102 people and dumping them in a ditch in Mylai, Vietnam. Senator Clifford Case has proposed legislation that would require the president to inform Congress within 60 days of making a treaty with another country.

Comments on the difficulties encountered by women who undergo divorce trials in the U.S. Experiences with the judicial system; Existing policy on child custody, child support and alimony; Details about the establishment of the Family Court and its functions; Issues on women' rights; Indications of the practices of the judicial system of americans.

Presents information on fourteen members of the U.S. armed forces who are charged with mutiny for conducting a peaceful sit-down demonstration last October at the San Francisco Presidio stockade. Description of punishments meted out to the army personnels; Information on the fact that mounting public pressure was responsible for the shorter sentences imposed upon the army personnels; Description of the history of the army personnels.

Focuses on the need of a reform of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in the U.S. Limitations of the Code established in the year 1950; Possibility for the influence of commanders on action of a court-martial; Features of an omnibus bill related to military justice; Provision for the right of a civil servant to a full hearing before his dismissal; Opinion that weaknesses of the 1950 Code are seriously impairing the quality of military justice; Increase in the civilian standards through various points of the Code; Impact of Supreme Court decisions on the military. INSET: Pray-In at Ft. Jackson..

Expresses opinion on the decision of a three-judge federal court in Connecticut on June 19, 1967 declaring that the state's residency requirements for welfare assistance is unconstitutional. Areas of grievance that the court challenges include violations of the civil liberties of welfare recipients and arbitrary denials of benefits; Lawsuit filed by a group of African-American mothers in Georgia on charges of racial discrimination; Contention that the practices are made possible due to the absence of any tradition of legal rights for welfare beneficiaries.

The article discusses issues related to U.S. politics. The author suggests public confidence in the U.S. government has been shaken by increased involvement in the war in Vietnam and the expulsion of representative Adam Clayton Powell. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson has delayed food shipments to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India. The U.S. National Advisory Commission on Selective Service has issued a report on draft reform to President Johnson.

The article discusses events relating to U.S. politics. The author suggests U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's use of history precedent to justify U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam is incorrect. The International Court of Justice has refused to declare a decision in a suit regarding South Africa's administration of South West Africa. Former Michigan governor G. Mennen Williams defeated Jerome P. Cavanagh, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, in the Democratic primary election for state senator.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed jail sentences for publishers Edward Mishkin and Ralph Ginzburg for distributing magazines that the court ruled violated obscenity laws. The author suggests peace talks between Europe and the Soviet Union are causing strain on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Civil rights leader James Farmer resigned from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to head the Center for Community-Action Education.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The author suggests an increase in spending for the war in Vietnam will detract funds from efforts to combat U.S. poverty. The U.S. National Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts reports that state governments have contributed little to conservation water and soil sources. Soviet writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli M. Daniel were arrested by Soviet authorities on charges they published books outside the Soviet Union.

The article offers news briefs for the week of November 20, 1965. Particular focus is given to the war on poverty in the U.S. and the advocacy of placing poor individuals in roles of power within poverty programs. The article also discusses U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam and the U.S. stance on peace negotiations. Further article topics include a damage suit involving Gold Bond trading stamps and a California Supreme Court decision regarding the use of operating expenses as charity.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of August 8, 1964. The political attributes of former U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and his relationship to former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, are discussed. Details of a trial involving President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, James R. Hoffa, is discussed. U.S. legislation pertaining to the "forgotten 30,000" drafted soldiers, who were ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War due to their married status, are discussed.

This article presents world news briefs for the week of May 30, 1964. Various issues concerning U.S. politics and government are discussed. The U.S. Supreme reviewed the case of Dewey McLaughlin and Connie Hoffman, a racially integrated couple who were living together. Very few African Americans participated in the March for Democratic Schools in New York.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of April 18, 1964. Relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. are discussed. The U.S. Government built a reservoir in the Allegheny river, and as a result the Seneca Native American tribe were forced from their homes. Details of a trial involving Roy Cohn, a U.S. lawyer involved in Communism investigations, is discussed.

Provides information on the trial of Jack Ruby for the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1964. Focus of the arguments presented by Chief Defense Counsel Melvin Belli; Background of Ruby; Evidence for the certainty of the city of Dallas, Texas that Ruby committed the crime for gain; Types of jurors that might be selected for the trial.

The article provides world news briefs. U.S. President John F. Kennedy's tax cut proposals are being criticized by business, labor, and economists for not cutting corporate taxes. Thomas Carlton Wansley, an African American living in Lynchburg, Virginia, was convicted of committing rape by two all-Caucasian juries and has been given the death sentence. The U.S. Senate's Steering Committee is, the article states, reassigning senators to committees based on how they voted during the filibuster.

Focuses on J. William Fulbright, a member of the U.S. Senate representing Arkansas. Criticism that resulted from the public silence of Fulbright at the time of the school desegregation crisis at Little Rock; Decision of Fulbright to file a legal brief of his own with the U.S. Supreme Court asking for a cooling off period before any further attempt was made to integrate Central High School; Association of Fulbright with the Federal Water Shed Program; Relations of Fulbright with other members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

This article presents news including the case filed in the Federal District Court in Detroit, Michigan, by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice against the Ford Motor Company's acquisition of the Electric Auto-Lite Company, the Reverend James A. McInerney of De Paul University in Chicago, Illinois, who discussed his beliefs regarding the privacy policy of fraternities in universities and colleges at the U.S. National Interfraternity Congress in Boston, Massachusetts, and doubt regarding the Laotian settlement as agreed upon by U.S. and Soviet delegates.

Criticizes the imprisonment of North Carolina communist Junius Scales for violating the U.S. Alien and Sedition Law. Background of his association with the communism; Comment on the establishment of the Supreme Court as the sole arbiter of law; Basis for the appeal for the release of Scales from prison.

The article presents a section of U.S. news briefs. U.S. President Gerald Ford has granted a pardon to U.S. citizens that avoided the military draft, but has faced criticism for the substance of the pardon. Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski is going ahead with the prosecution of people involved in the Watergate cover-up despite a pardon granted to former U.S. President Richard Nixon. President Ford has decided against extending government aid to companies in danger of bankruptcy.

Focuses on the military surveillance of the Americans in Berlin, Germany. Infiltration of the U.S. Democratic party; Lawsuit of the American Civil Liberties Union against the U.S. Army; Increase of questionable activities among the law enforcement and intelligence agencies; Inquiry addressed by the Armed Services Committee staff to the Pentagon; Statement that evidence has come from a suit filed in federal courts by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which seeks an order banning future army political surveillance in Germany; Fact that ACLU charges that the army is engaged in the illegal practices, with or without the cooperation of West German authorities; Charge that the army maintains files on the professional activities and political opinions of U.S. citizens; Suggestion that the army was trying to establish the existence of a broad conspiracy to subvert army enlisted men.

Focuses on the procedural aspects of the criminal case of Vice President Spiro Theodore Agnew in the U.S. Reports that Agnew's attorneys had been negotiating with the prosecutors to work out a disposition of the possible criminal charges; Views on plea bargaining; Role of Judge in deciding what punishment will be given a defendant who has admitted his guilt; Information on the aspects that complicates plea bargaining in Agnew's case; Demand of public interest in the full treatment by way of indictment and full public awareness of all the elements that even enter into a plea bargain.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Judge Kaufman's Rise" published in April 7 issue; Assessment of the judicial performance of U.S. Federal judge Irving R. Kaufman; Correction to an article regarding U.S. politicians, published in the April 14 issue.

The article discusses about "Texas Tidelands", the submerged area extending three marine leagues seaward to the Gulf of Mexico. Governor Allan Shiver, in 1952 flew to Chicago and conferred privately with politician Adlai Stevenson. He said "Anti-Texas Adlai" was against "Texas Tidelands," and said that he as a loyal Texan would support U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower. Eisenhower went to Houston, Texas and promised his fellow Texans that they, not the All-Powerful Federal Government, own "Texas Tidelands." On November 7, 1957, the United States Government sued Texas for the tidelands between the three-mile and the three-league (10.5 mile) limits.

This article reports on the Declaration of Constitutional Principles attacking the U.S. Supreme Court's school segregation decision, which was issued on March 11, by Congressional delegates. The Declaration enters, on the part of the South, a universe of discourse different from that in which the South's men of violence and demagoguery dwell, and into which they have been trying to draw us. Communism, for example, escapes any mention. The Supreme Court itself provided the lawful means for delayed and gradual implementation of its decision, in wise deference to the age and tenacity of the custom which it must eventually displace.

The article reports that in 1936 citizen and taxpayer John Keogh, rose in an Illinois courtroom and pulled a gun, killed the opposing lawyer, and took a shot at the judge. Keogh's unprovoked bit of manslaughter was intended to dramatize the fact that the people of Chicago in the year 1936 were denied a republican form of government and that the Illinois legislature was an illegal body. In 1937, another comrade Henry Stone analyzed each of the 95 state legislatures in the U.S. He was trying to prove that a minority of the population could elect a majority, of the state legislature in virtually every state of the U.S.

The article comments on a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that digital computer programs are not to be protected under Patent Laws. Speaking for a unanimous court, Justice William O. Douglas has ruled, in the case of "Gottschalk v. Benson and Tabbot," that digital computer programs are not to be protected under the present Patent Laws of the U.S. The patent application in question claimed a method for converting binary-coded-decimal numerals into pure binary numerals. The claims were not limited to any particular art or technology, or to any particular end use. They purported to cover any use of the claimed method in a general purpose digital computer of any type. Succinctly put, the claim was for an algorithm, that is a mathematical formulation for converting one form of numerical representation to another. Repeating a truism, maintained by a long line of uncontroverted patent decisions holding that mathematical formulas like laws of nature are unpatentable, Justice Douglas ruled unequivocally that an algorithm was not patentable.

Focuses on the obscenity rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court. Report that the Court has announced a rule that substantially strips publications or films describing sexual conduct of constitutional protection in all but exceptional cases; Consequences of the Court's decision; View that the danger of rampant suppression in light of the Court's decision is not ephemeral; Problems to be faced by book publishers, movie distributors, and even booksellers.

Presents information on the launch of Common Cause, an organization, by John W. Gardner. Comments on the projects titled the Colorado project and the voting rights project headed by Anne Wexler of Connecticut; View that the Colorado project was the grass-roots prototype and had the charismatic and innovative leadership in Craig Barnes, a gentle but deeply committed young Denver attorney, and David Mixner; Suit against the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for improper implementation of the dollar check-off; Interview of the congressional candidates on reform of seniority and secrecy practices; Role of Common Cause in the fight for reform of seniority and secrecy practices.

Focuses on the act of reporters for shield legislation to protect them from revealing their sources and unpublished notes after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Branzburg case. Report that as a result of its disappointment and understandable concern with Branzburg, much of the press decided to move their battle to the Congress; View that there are other more significant aspects to the Court's decision, which should give the press some second thoughts about jousting with First Amendment rights on the legislative turf; Details of the case; View that Branzburg firmly hitches First Amendment protection to the news gathering function of the press; Description of several other cases; Role of the Congress in this matter; View that the central right at stake here is the right of the public to be informed, the right of the press to publish is part of and in essential fulfillment of that right.