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Such stories are not unusual on many U.S. campuses today. Visiting parents, barely used to finding their children knee-deep in noise and petty vandalism, are now, like universities themselves, encountering organic dilapidation in academe. For want of maintenance, roofs leak, ceilings crumble, fuses blow, pipes go bump in the night and expire. According to the National Association of College and University Business Officers, it would take roughly $30 billion just to catch up with accumulated neglect of campus buildings...
...someone who got caught in the Watergate syndrome, a paranoiac who thought the Justice Department would just sit on the whole thing, someone who thinks no one can be trusted." The New York Times published a long set of questions and answers about Abscam, including one on why leakers leak, but didn't think it necessary to discuss why newspapers publish information that could presumably wait until formal charges are filed. Convinced that news of Abscam was getting out, the FBI hurriedly completed its last interviews on the very Saturday that NBC, the Times and Newsday, each having checked...
Should the special prosecutor want to talk to Abe Rosenthal, executive editor of the Times, about the leak, Rosenthal would want "six lawyers at my side." The Times officials hesitate to discuss the subject publicly for fear of prejudicing any later legal claim to the right to remain silent. But it is not hard to discover the Times's attitude. It frequently knows and doesn't publish the news that prominent figures are under investigation. What made Abscam different, the Times feels, was the sheer size and expense of the FBI operation, almost like a Bay of Pigs...
...nature of the FBI operation made early publication inevitable. (Rosenthal even deplores the name Abscam, which is short for Arab scam: "I wouldn't like it if the FBI had a Jewscam.") But there's still something disquieting about the way the press protects those whose leaks jeopardize due process of law or disclose security information. The Times, in listing the motives of leakers, says that some fear that superiors may override their findings, some long for personal credit, others with a grudge may want to punish a politician "with publicity even if an indictment is not warranted...
High court plugs a leak-and gets a flood of criticism...