JAIL FOR PROFESSOR IN PENTAGON PAPERS CASE

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Like that other assembly of cruelty to animals, the RSPCA, they are no doubt fully in favour of the savage repression of the rights of trade unionists.

It would seem also that someone, somewhere, thinks that 'Star' readers might be among the 'once only tourists' —perhaps on a Soviet cruise to the Canary Islands?

November 8 Tremletts Professor Samuel L. Popkin of Harvard University was ordered by a federal judge last week to begin serving a sentence for contempt of a federal grand jury.

Professor Popkin, believed to be the first American scholar to be jailed for protecting sources of information, was cited for contempt on March 21, 1971, for refusing answer certain questions put to him by a federal grand jury investigating the distribution of the once-secret Pentagon study on the origins of the Vietnam war. to the was Dedham County Jail, south of Boston, after US District judge Arthur W. Garrity denied the last of a long series of motions seeking to overturn the contempt citation.

Popkin's defence pleaded the right of scholars to conduct research without government interference. Teed right WAssistant ally rejected Assistant Attorney Richard Bachman and by Judge Garrity.

• a statement read over television by his wife, Professor Popkin declared: If scholars are to be questioned without restriction about their sources, grand juries will become the government's instrument to limit the free flow of informa. tion about government to the public.' Meanwhile, in Los Angeles defence lawyers in the Pentagon Papers case are demanding a new jury before the case resumes on the grounds that remarks by vice-President Spiro Agnew have prejudiced the jurors.

Attorneys for defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo have said they will seek dismissal of espionage, conspiracy and theft charges because of 'alleged government misconduct in connection with this trial".

Referring to the bugging of the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington, Agnew Agnew, whoso sialamant on lalavlalor has caused damanda for a fresh Jury. Above: Ellsberg his case reopens on December 8. said on a nationally televised show on October 29:

'If you are going to purloin documents, why is there a double standard about purloining re-election documents and purloining the Pentagon papers?' The trial of Ellsberg and Russo is expected to resume on December 8.

The Supreme Court recently refused to hear defence appeal on a wire-tapping issue that forced postponement of the case in August.

SENATOR CONVICTED ON BRIBERY CHARGE Former Democratic Senator Daniel B. Brewster—one-time 'golden boy of Maryland politics—has just become the first man in over 60 years to be convicted of a crime while serving as a US senator.

It took a jury seven hours to decide that Brewster was guilty of accepting a $14,500 bribe from Washington lobbyist Cyrus T. Anderson, The bribe was said to be a pay-off on behalf of a Chicago mailorder firm seeking to kill a postal-rate increase.

Brewster claimed the money was a campaign contribution.

Sentence has not yet been passed, but the possible maximum is $60,000 in fines and 45 years in jail for Anderson, and $30,000 and six years for Brewster.