Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate's many side effects has been to evict from the public's attention the figure of the beleaguered reporter languishing in jail for refusing to name his news sources. The investigative reporter triumphant has replaced him and the controversy over disclosing confidential information has shifted from newsmen's notebooks to the Oval Office tapes. But this triumph is illusory. Across the country, reporters, editors and publishers still face a variety of judicial and legislative attacks that threaten basic press freedom...
Journalists still face imprisonment for refusing to name their sources. St Petersburg Times Reporter Lucy Ware Morgan has been sentenced to five months in jail unless she tells a Pasco County judge where she got her information for a story on a grand jury that had decided not to issue any indictments. An appeal is pending, and Times Editor Eugene Patterson is attempting to go to jail in his reporter's place. Patterson may get half his wish. The judge is considering whether the editor exposed himself to contempt charges when he ordered Mrs. Morgan not to name...
...enacted almost by accident; legislators included newsmen in an ethics bill originally aimed at public officials. That addition and others, it was thought, would kill the entire passage. Instead, the measure was enacted. Two Alabama papers are appealing the law, which carries a sentence of ten years in jail and a $10,000 fine for violators. But Governor George Wallace has already appointed an ethics commission to administer the new edict. As its chairman, Wallace last week chose Leslie Wright, president of Samford University in Birmingham, who is widely known for his ironfisted censorship of a student newspaper...
...object of the exercise was less to mete out justice than to pressure the Bonn government into cracking down on the flourishing business of helping East Germans, principally highly trained professionals like doctors and engineers, to escape to the West. Stiff jail sentences were part of the message. One of the accused, a West Berlin seaman named Karl-Heinz Hetzschold, 30, got 11½ years for damaging East German interests and illegal profiteering. The lightest sentence was seven years for long-haired Hans-Dieter Voss...
...hassles of arranging her marriage to a Colorado State prisoner, who is serving 40 years for second-degree murder and aggravated robbery. Sue first met Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 33, in 1970, when she visited a friend who was sharing Gary's cell in a Los Angeles County jail. Now she plans to campaign for prison reform, specifically for prisoners' conjugal rights. As she puts it, "God said to procreate. The prison system is going against the Bible...