Word: mail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march alongside the workers and shout their own protests against an antiquated and inadequate education system. In Rome and Bologna, students occupied the universities to drive home their point. Next came the turn of state employees to demand more pay and social benefits. For 24 hours, trains halted, mail distribution stopped, schools were deserted and telephone service snarled. Reflecting the crisis of confidence, capital once again began to flee from the country, and the Milan stock market slumped to a three-year low. In the middle of it all, the government resigned...
Like Adlai Stevenson before him, Hubert Humphrey somehow seemed taller in defeat. His final, fierce effort to overtake Richard Nixon had already won back the respect of many. His gracious acceptance of the loss disarmed most of the remaining critics. On his desk in Washington lay mountains of mail from Democrats and Republicans alike, nearly all of it favorable. Even while he relaxed last week in the Virgin Islands, he relayed word to friends in Washington that in any planning for the future of the Democratic Party, he was to be counted...
...they were convicted of making false statements, on the strength of testimony from a parade of government witnesses -despite a presiding magistrate's suspicions that the witnesses were painting "too rosy a picture" of prison life. Strachan was sent back to jail and served 18 months. With the Mail's informants thus legally discredited, the government finally moved against Gandar, long a nettlesome critic, and against the reporter who wrote the original series, Benjamin Pogrund...
They are charged under a stringent Prisons Act that makes it a crime to publish false information on prisons without taking "reasonable" steps to verify it. The onus of proof is on the accused. The government no longer denies the main thrust of the Mail's stories, since ample evidence of prison brutality is now on the record. Instead, the charges against Gandar and Pogrund are based on legalistic quibbles. For instance, the prosecution does not dispute that prisoners were tortured with electric shocks-only that the newspaper said the shocks were administered on orders from a prison officer...
Dereliction of Duty. As the trial began last week, Gandar got in the first blow in his opening statement. The Mail, he declared, had gone "well beyond what most newspapers would have considered adequate" in checking its facts. Not to have published the stories, he said, "would have been a dereliction of duty, a suppression of a matter of vital public concern." Fulfilling that duty could now cost Gandar and Pogrund, if they are convicted, a year in prison on each of two counts...