Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BRITAIN The British press dubbed them the "Terminal Children." Thousands of North Americans waited for up to a week at Heathrow and Gatwick airports to get cheap seats, either on Laker Airways or other lines that offer a limited number of stand-by fares...
...Canada and Britain, the lid is tighter than...
...matter how worrisome the Snepp case may be to U.S. public servants who break promises to keep secrets, they do not have to contend with anything like the Official Secrets Act in Canada or Britain, where it is a crime to disclose any government document without permission. These laws are currently under fire in both countries, as a result of three cases...
...Colonel B affair underlines the curious history of the Official Secrets Act, which dates from 1896 in Britain and 1939 in Canada. Although, as one former British Attorney General put it, The Act can make it a crime "to report the number of cups of tea consumed per week in a government department," in fact there have been few prosecutions. That is explained partly by intimidation, partly by government restraint and partly by the British and Canadian press's deference to the need for government secrecy...
...Britain's Labor government last month released a White Paper proposing a streamlined Official Secrets Act. But civil libertarians fear that under the reforms, official prosecutions will go up, not down. "The new act," says a Civil Liberties Advocate, "will convert an inaccurate blunderbuss into a highly accurate rifle...