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...following writers contributed to this section: Geoff Simon, Mark Brazaitis, Michael J. Lartigue, Casey J. Lartigue, Jr., Ken Segel, and Steve Li. The Team of the Year and Player of the Year were selected by vote of the Harvard Crimson Sports Cube...
...Casey formally asked the Justice Department to consider prosecuting NBC for its report. Meanwhile, the Washington Post on Wednesday published another sensitive story on the Pelton case. The front-page article, however, had been abridged after numerous discussions with Casey and other Administration officials. The published story, written by Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward and Reporter Patrick E. Tyler, provided a relatively innocuous account of Pelton's encounters with Soviet agents. Removed were any technical details of the spying techniques that Pelton allegedly betrayed...
...thing the article did include was a revealing description of the Post's own encounters with Administration officials. Originally scheduled to run on May 4, the story was delayed after Casey met with editors to warn them of possible prosecution. On May 10, President Reagan took the extraordinary step of telephoning Post Chairman Katharine Graham. In what Graham described as a "very civilized, low-key conversation," Reagan stressed that the matter was of the highest security importance and warned that he would support prosecution if the Post printed the full account...
...week's activities did little to clear up confusion among news editors over just what constitutes a breach of the law in Casey's book. NBC News President Lawrence Grossman said the CIA's move "caught us by surprise," since the network had aired virtually the same report last November, when Pelton was arrested. Indeed, details on similar submarine eavesdropping operations were revealed in articles in the New York Times and Washington Post as early as the mid-1970s, and the code name Ivy Bells was used by Pelton's attorney in a pretrial hearing...
While national security concerns are often taken into account on sensitive stories, news editors insist that the final decision on what to publish must be their own. Casey has contacted the Post six times in the past year with objections to specific articles, according to Post editors, and in one case the paper killed the story. Others argue that Casey's campaign is misdirected. "The public has the idea that the press is constantly breaking secrets," says A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times. "The reality is that it is the U.S. Government and U.S. officials...