Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...section of London's Heathrow Airport, which had been barricaded by tanks, armored cars and British troops. Vance's jet was diverted to a Royal Air Force base. At the castle, sharpshooters manned the stone turrets, and sentries with guard dogs patrolled the grounds and single drawbridge access...
Presley wanted to meet FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who loathed long-haired types. "Presley stated," the memo went on, "that his long hair and unusual apparel were merely tools of his trade and afforded him access to and rapport with many people." Jones wrote to his superiors, however, that "Presley's sincerity and good intentions notwithstanding, he is certainly not the type of individual whom the director would wish to meet." Hoover never did agree to see Presley. Instead, he wrote the singer a letter saying that he would "keep in mind your offer to be of assistance...
...cases, the court refused to hear challenges to court-imposed limits on what participants in a criminal trial could say to newsmen. In three others, it decided not to review orders to newsmen to reveal their sources in ordinary civil cases. Two weeks ago, the court denied special prison access to San Francisco TV station KQED, specifically telling the press that it had no more right of access than the general public...
...decision stirred a new round of hand wringing by press defenders, but the outcome may not be as grim as it looks. Only three Justices (Burger, Rehnquist and White) refused to give the press any kind of special access. Stewart argued that the press could bring along its tools of the trade, including cameras, on public tours. "In theory, the press may not have any more access than the public in Stewart's view," said Stanford's Gunther. "But practically, it does." Three Justices (Stevens, Brennan and Powell) argued that both press and public should have greater access...
...Times overrated? This seems a melancholy assessment to those many who have long regarded him as Washington's ablest journalist-the role model of an aggressive competitor and fair reporter, with great sources, literate style and Calvinist integrity. The Washingtonian quotes one Reston colleague: "His problem is over-access. He gets to see people others can't see and he believes them and blows their horn." But surely, to be able to quote Carter's or Kissinger's private comment accurately is to provide valuable information. Reston's real problem is that like most other...