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1992). On government manipulation of news during the war, see
MacArthur (1992); Miller (1992).
This must have semed like deja vu to Postol, who had been an expert
witness for The Progressive magazine in 1979, when the government was
trying to stop it from printing an article demonstrating that the untrained
layperson could assemble virtually all the information about how to make
a hydrogen bomb. Postol testified that the article "contains no information
or ideas that are not already common knowledge among scientists,
including those who do not have access to classified information." Hans
Bethe, one of the many scientists supporting the government, himself had
been prevented from publishing an article on thermonuclear weapons in
Scientific American in 1950. Although the Atomic Energy Commission
conceded that the article contained no secret information, it forced the
magazine to capitulate and then supervised the destruction of the entire
print run (not yet distributed) and the melting down of the type. Smolla
(1992: 266-67).
Four days before the 1988 election federal prisioner Brett Kimberlin
scheduled a press conference to disclose that he had sold marijuana to
Dan Quayle. The next day he was put in solitary confinement. He was
removed the following night when Nina Totenberg threatened to report
the incident on National Public Radio, and a telephone news conference
was re-scheduled for the day before the election. But moments before it
was to begin he was returned to solitary until after the election. He is the
only inmate ever known to have been placed in solitary by order of the
Bureau of Prisons Director. A report of the Senate's Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee confirmed this account; the Inspector General is investigating.
New York Times s.1 p. 15 (May 3, 1992), A23 (June 25, 1992), 1
(October 3, 1992); Los Angeles Times A17 (October 3, 1992); Singer
(1992).
30 New York Times A1 (February 14, 1992), A9 (March 18, 1992); Los
Angeles Times A16 (March 17, 1992), A23 (March 26, 1992).
31 Los Angeles Times B1 (February 14, 1992); New York Times 34 (January
1, 1992). The Secretary of State for Washington State, running for reelection,
sought to prevent the producers of "Body of Evidence" from
filming in the State Capitol Building: "the plot is that the character played
by Madonna seduces a man to death. . . .the movie is filled with sex and
violence. Why should we condone or cater to anything of this kind?" Los
Angeles Times F1 (April 23, 1992).
32 Compare Bright v. Los Angeles Unified School District, 18 Cal.3d 450
(1977) (protecting student speech under state consitution) with Hazelwood
School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988) (rejecting
protection under federal constitution).
The Orange County (California) High School for the Arts covered up a
painting at an exhibition because it portrayed two nude women embracing,
with an explanatory statement by the artist, a Catholic senior: "I
don't want to go to hell because of loving another woman." After protests
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