...and Individual Rights
Date: 29 May 1975
ed disagrees with Atty Gen E H Levi's contention that need for Govt secrecy is rooted in roughly same values as are rights of ordinary citizens to privacy; cites lesson of Watergate that unfettered govt power exercised in secret can easily be abused; notes Sen Select Intelligence Com request for documents from FBI and Atty Gen E H Levi's concern that disclosure of 'raw intelligence files' would compromise privacy of individuals named in files; holds com should get material after estab procedures to protect information in files
Full Article
Proposed New Criminal Code Arouses Press's Fears on Secrecy
Date: 28 May 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
M Arnold analysis of developing confrontation between press and Govt over proposed Fed Criminal Code, particularly secs dealing with internal security; notes suggestion toward legalizing Govt secrecy that before has been alien to US's freedom-of-the-press tradition (L)
Full Article
LAWYER SURRENDERS IN MAULDIN ATTACK
Date: 28 May 1975
atty Thomas D Flanagan on May 27 surrenders to police and is charged with assaulting Chicago Sun-Times cartoonist Bill Mauldin; says he intends to sign cross complaint charging Mauldin with simple battery (S)
Full Article
Sports News Briefs; 'Duffers' Take U.S.G.A. to Court
Date: 29 May 1975
Theodore Kheel, testifying in Rozelle rule trial in US Dist Ct, says NFL's position is that there have to be some rules; says Players Assn is opposed to both the compensation rule in gen and to comr's setting of compensation; Rozelle-rule impasse led to players' strike last July (S)
Full Article
A FINANCE AGENCY FOR CITY UPHELD; Court Rejects a Challenge to Stabilization Reserve 'Good News,' Goldin Says State's High Court Upholds a Finance Agency for City
Date: 28 May 1975
By LINDA GREENHOUSE Special to The New York Times
Linda Special
NYS Appeals Ct, 4-3, rejects suit by Prof Leon E Wein challenging const of Stabilization Reserve Corp, new agency through which NYC hopes to borrow $520-million by end of June; Wein held that corp is device to evade limit placed on city's indebtedness by NYS Const; Assoc Justice Domenick L Gabrielli, writing for majority, says that law setting up corp specifies that its bonds and notes 'shall not be debt of either state or city,' debt limit is not extended; Assoc Justice Matthew J Jasen writes dissent; NYC Controller Harrison J Goldin hails ruling (M)
Full Article