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In <1993Jan7.222422.11146@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:


>Ed Hamrick raises the new question of whether a book available at
>B. Dalton's, which contains the DES code, is exportable.

>From memory, I think at the time of the Pentagon Papers case, and again
>when some "little" magazine published plans for building your own
>A-bomb, the courts ruled that prior restraint was not permitted, but
>that the government was free to act after publication.

My recollection was the the government took no further action against "The
Progressive" in the A-bomb case, after the courts ruled prior restraint was
not permitted.  I don't recall whether they just gave up or the courts
ruled that the goverment could NOT take any action.


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