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UNITED STATES v. WIYN RADIO, INC.

No. 79-1410 Summary Calendar.

614 F.2d 495 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WIYN RADIO, INC., Licensee of Radio Station WIYN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cohen & Berfield, Morton L. Berfield, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellant.

Richard W. Oehler, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, John P. Greenspan, Federal Comm. Commission, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before REAVLEY, HATCHETT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Defendant-appellant is the licensee of standard radio broadcast station WIYN in Rome, Georgia. On April 23, 1971, during the broadcast of WIYN's Comment program, the moderator characterized the Institute of American Democracy ("IAD") and its newsletter, Homefront, as "definitely subversive" and "to the Far Left." The WIYN moderator made these references in the context of a diatribe regarding alleged communist infiltration of the Methodist...

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