Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passport, he decided to go to France, whose government took the precaution of asking the Shah whether he had any objections. The third mistake was the Shah's answer to France: he did not care what happened to Khomeini. For the first time, the world press had easy access...
...reporter from Gannett's Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Times-Union later challenged the judge's ruling: the reporter relied on the Sixth Amendment, which provides that "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial," and claimed a "right to access" under the First Amendment. The judge was unpersuaded; he saw a "reasonable probability of prejudice." His decision to close the court was first overturned, then upheld before it reached the Supreme Court...
...Sixth Amendment's public-trial guarantee belongs only to the criminally accused, wrote Stewart, not to the public itself. He specifically refused to concede that the press or the public possesses a constitutional right, under the First Amendment, to attend criminal trials. Even if such a right of "access" did exist, Stewart went on, it would have to yield to a defendant's guarantee of a fair trial...
Houchins vs. KQED (1978), Pell vs. Procunier (1974) and Saxbe vs. Washington Post (1974). The press has no more right of access to public institutions than does the general public...
...that gave the Government possession of the secret recordings, as well as those that were made public during the Watergate investigations and trials. Eventually the Government intends to set up as many as eleven centers around the country to give historians, and just plain curious citizens, easy access to the recordings...