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...handling of the Massiter affair, the government appeared to have done little to dispel public concern over potential abuses of the Official Secrets Act. At first, executives of Britain's Independent Broadcasting Authority, the public body that regulates commercial television, were advised by their lawyers that they risked prosecution if they allowed the documentary to be televised. But more than 40 opposition Members of Parliament signed a Commons motion saying that the public had a right to see the film. Last Tuesday, Attorney General Sir Michael Havers announced that no one would be prosecuted under the Official Secrets...
...dispel any lingering doubts about his rigorous stance, the touring Pontiff stressed again and again the need for a disciplined church that is attentive to official teaching. To an audience of 400,000 in Caracas he issued another in his series of traditionalist condemnations of birth control, abortion, euthanasia and illicit sex. The morning after saying Mass in Maracaibo, he moved on to Merida, where he urged a throng to accept church teachings "with meekness" and not to be "dragged away by ideologies contrary to Catholic dogma...
...other encounters with the intellectual elite of the day are deftly depicted. There is also an abundance of Johnsonian anecdotes, though sometimes too many. The section on 1784, for instance, deals more with Johnson than it does Boswell, which is fine, except that Brady is attempting to dispel the prevalent image of Boswell as merely Johnson's sycophantic foil. There are already plenty of good biography's of Johnson, including Boswell...
...Cabot House Junior, Segal said he hopes to dispel what he termed, "quad-phobia." "I was told ar a freshman to be scared to death of the Quad and when I heard, I was scared ... there's a stereotype and it's not right," he added...
...Post interview is the latest in a series of Chernenko appearances evidently designed to dispel speculation that the leader's health is failing and that his nation is suffering a leadership vacuum. A few days after signing a friendship treaty in Moscow with President Ali Abdullah Saleh of North Yemen, Chernenko last week received Syrian President Hafez Assad in the Kremlin. Hungarian Communist Leader Janos Kadar, on a visit to Paris last week, insisted that all is well in the Moscow hierarchy. Said he: "It is a stable leadership, and the continuity of its leadership is the mark...