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...recent comparison-shopping survey by the Croton Consumer Action Organization in New York's Westchester County found that a pound of Oscar Mayer bacon cost $1.39 at A. & P. v. $1.19 at Grand Union; a 9-oz. package of Birds Eye frozen green beans, 33? v. 31?; Kraft mayonnaise, 63? v. 69?; 5 lbs. of Florida oranges 89? v. 69?; a pound of Land O'Lakes butter...
Looking back on the incalculable human effort represented in such hardware, Johnson Space Center Director Christopher Kraft says: "The challenge of the space program furnished a spiritual drive that brought this country together in a way we have not experienced in peacetime since the early exploration of the land we live in. Now we can only hope to find something else to provide that kind of inspiration and leadership." Wherever that next challenge lies for this generation of Americans, it clearly is not in space...
...Kraft was criticizing the coverage of the Watergate grand jury's confidential report to Judge John Sirica, which was handed up along with the indictments. Though his column did not offer examples, he said later that he was thinking of stories by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, James Naughton of the New York Times, Newsweek and CBS. The network had speculated-erroneously, as it turned out-on the number of people who were about to be named as defendants and coconspirators. The three publications, and others as well, discussed the grand jury's deliberations...
With few specific exceptions, grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret. Kraft conceded that in the earlier phases of Watergate, while the cover-up was partly working, journalistic enterprise was necessary to get at the basic facts. Now that the official inquiry is being conducted vigorously, he said, the "traditional inhibitions on reporting" should be applied. Abandoning that restraint, he warned, endangers individuals' rights to due process, threatens to wreck the prosecution's case on procedural grounds and gives journalism a bad name...
...Kraft's demand for restraint, which would be unexceptionable in most cases, raises its own problem in the very special circumstance of Watergate. This unique scandal is far more than a criminal proceeding. It has involved not powerless defendants but some of the nation's most influential officials. There have been repeated attempts to suppress evidence, minimize the case's importance, deflect guilt and hide behind the shibboleth of national security. These factors at first inhibited the press. Now the urge is to print everything obtainable in the belief that self-censorship would be itself a kind...