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...Renata Adler...
...FLIP SIDE of the old saw about politics making strange bed-fellows is that it can also make weird sparring partners. In June Renata Adler published two long articles in successive issues of The New Yorker on the libel trials of General William Westmoreland v. CBS and General Ariel Sharon v. Time Magazine. The pieces were a full-scale assault on the libel laws and a scathing attack on the two media giants for bungling--and then vehemently defending--their stories on the two former commandants...
Implicit in Adler's offensive against Time, CBS and Cravath, Swaine and Moore--the giant New York City law firm which defended both media conglomerates--was a defense of the two generals, whom nobody particularly likes. CBS and Time merely confirmed many people's worst suspicions about Sharon and Westmoreland when reporting allegations of gross naughtiness on both their parts...
...critics were uneasy about the possibility that someday American soldiers could find themselves in a shoot-out with drug gangs. Others expressed concern about the increasing use of the military in civilian law-enforcement procedures. While finding "no serious problem" with the Bolivia operation, Allan Adler, legal counsel for the A.C.L.U., was worried that "if drug smuggling can be declared a national security matter, it's difficult to imagine what might not be." Using the security blanket so broadly, he complained, could erode congressional authority and the Constitution's checks and balances...
...revealed at the trial should not be a pretext for further disclosures about intelligence methods. Citing the "competing interests" of prosecutorial revelations and the need to protect the national security, the two intelligence chiefs warned reporters against "speculation and reporting details beyond the information actually released at trial." Allan Adler, legislative counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, called the statement part of a campaign "to cow the press in national security reporting." Said Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee: "How the press covers this trial is a matter for the press to decide, not the Government...