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Key Rosenberg Documents Found

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
August
Year
1974
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PIG PROTECTS GRASS

Acting on a tip, Sheriff Leigh Wilson of Brevard County, Florida, sent two of his deputies searching for a marijuana patch reported growing in the middle of a cornfield.

Deputies Robinson and York found the pot - but they also came across a very large pig sternly guarding the weed.

According to the deputies, the "watch-pig" held the officers at bay for nearly an hour, nipping and biting at their legs each time they would try to reach for the plants.

Kicks in the snoot of the watchful pig failed to budge it, but the cops finally sprayed the swine with mace and chased it into a nearby farmyard pen.

Said Sheriff Leigh after the incident: "This story ought to be headlined, 'Pig Bites Pigs.'" The Sheriff added that there would be no charges pressed against the pig. 

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KEY ROSENBERG DOCUMENTS FOUND

The US Justice Department reports that it has found evidence relating to the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that was reported lost last spring.

The documents in question had been requested last year by Marin Sobell, one of the co-defendants of the Rosenbergs who was convicted in 1951 of espionage - and who spent 18 years in prison.

Sobell has insisted he and the Rosenbergs were framed by documents that were forged: he sued to obtain evidence in the case -- but was informed this spring that the key documents he requested "had been lost."

The Justice Department says the materials were "accidentally misfiled", and has consented to turn the exhibits over to Sobell.

Sobell has predicted that he will be able to use the newly-discovered documents to prove that he and the Rosenbergs were innocent. The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953.

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WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING CHALLENGED

Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson and North Carolina Senator Sam Ervine have introduced a bill that would require the Justice Department and the FBI to obtain a court order ahead of time before wiretapping any phone. 

According to the two Senators, bot agencies continue to engage in warrantless wiretaps for so-called "national security" purposes. 

Nelson says that a Senate study has disclosed that many law-abiding citizens - including the late Doctor Martin Luther King Junior and newspaper columnist Joseph Kraft - were wiretapped repeatedly by government police agencies without court permission. 

The two Senators said that under their bill, wiretaps could be carried out by government agencies - but only after the agencies received writted authorization in the form of a warrant "from a neutral court." 

Nelson and Ervin recently headed a coalition of Senators which successfully repealed the controversial "no-knock" provision which had enabled government police to burst into a private residence without knocking first. 

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