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Argentina is not the only country in which the press is being hamstrung. The Chicago Tribune's Latin American Correspondent Jules Dubois. an old foe of censorship and suppression, delivered a report singling out Argentina as the worst offender, but also recommending that protests be made to Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Peru, Nicaragua and Venezuela for various forms of interference...
...side (Chamroen, Robert Cohen's opponent in last week's western-style bout, is also his country's featherweight, bantamweight and lightweight champion, Thai style). But without their music, forbidden to use their feet, forced to depend on their padded fists, most Thai fighters are hamstrung. Effete westerners, Thai fans agree, have ruined a fine, manly sport with foolish rules...
...stringent restrictions be placed on newspaper coverage of court trials? Many a lawyer thinks so and strict codes for covering trials have even been proposed (TIME, July 12). But last week in Washington, before the Federal Bar Association, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. vigorously denied that newspapers should be hamstrung in their trial coverage. Said Brownell: "Our free press brings to light corruption, injustice, dishonesty, wrongs of every kind . . . The free press may also be helpful to an accused in dispelling false, distorted or wild charges that would otherwise provoke hasty and irresponsible vigilante action." Brownell pointed out that...
Obviously leaning more on U.S. intelligence reports than on N.N.S.C. returns, Foster Dulles confirmed last week that wholesale violations are going on north of the line. They are not massive enough, he added, to justify resuming the war. Dulles said that the N.N.S.C. was hamstrung, that the disgusted Swiss and Swedes would like to pull out. He also revealed that exploratory talks had been held at Geneva on abolition of the N.N.S.C. (a move which would make the struggle for information a straight contest between the intelligence services of both sides). Since the present N.N.S.C. operations are a substantial...
...French had blocked formation of the Vietnamese army until 1951-five years after the war began; they had denied the Vietnamese a sizable share of modern U.S. equipment and financial aid; they had played down Vietnamese exploits in the GHQ communiqués. The French had also deliberately hamstrung the young army by training only companies and battalions at a time, by scattering these units piecemeal across Indo-China under French command and by holding back the training of Vietnamese officers. (There are today only 7,500 trained Vietnamese officers, when at least 20,000 are needed.) Offensive Action...