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Media executives are particularly leery of stories about individuals or organizations known to be prone to sue. Surveys by the Columbia Journalism Review and other organizations have found the impact greatest on smaller publications, on marginal stories and in indirect ways like excessive editorial scrutiny that can discourage reportorial enterprise. After repeated libel suits (which he has almost always won), Irvin Lieberman, publisher of a group of suburban Philadelphia newspapers, has "emasculated" his papers' investigative zeal. "I'm a hell raiser, and I think a lot of hell needs to be raised," he says. "But I can't jeopardize...
...crowding also claimed an indirect victim as the housing office decided that incoming transfer students would no longer be guaranteed on-campus housing. In the past, transfers had been assured they could sample house life by senior year...
...central question posed by Congress's hearings about the Iran-contra affair: Did Ronald Reagan violate U.S. law? Reagan and his aides have begun freely admitting that he was deeply involved in encouraging private support for the contras during the period when the Boland amendment barred "direct or indirect" U.S. aid. But they argued that the amendment simply did not apply to the President -- and if it had, it would have been unconstitutional...
...indirect" expenditures apply to funds used to pay the salaries of Government officials who helped the contras? During the debate over his amendment in 1984, Boland emphasized the point: "It clearly prohibits any expenditure, including those from accounts for salaries." If he is right, the disclosures that various Government employees -- most notably North and Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams -- spent time coordinating support for the contras would pretty clearly point to a violation...
Reagan's activism in favor of the contras raised questions about his role in soliciting funds from third countries, an indirect form of support that Congress explicitly prohibited in October 1985. In a curious charade designed to avoid embarrassing nations that are friendly to the U.S., it was agreed that they would be cited only by a number. But it was clear that "Country 2" was Saudi Arabia, which had, at McFarlane's prompting, contributed $1 million a month to the contras since May 1984. In February 1985, the President held a meeting in the Oval Office with King Fahd...