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When Bui hinted at the story, Minister of Justice Shapiro ordered the magazine to put out a revised edition with the nudes in place of the offending story. Later, at a secret trial, Editors Mohr and Ghilan were each sentenced to a year in prison. Despite all the precautions, the foreign press broke the story. Only then was the Israeli press allowed to tell...
...incurring official wrath, two Israeli editors were dealt even harsher punishment than Colonel Moranda. Last December, Shemuel Mohr and Maxim Ghilan decided to try a little political sensationalism to boost the circulation (10,000) of their sex-oriented magazine, Bui. Under the headline "Stinking International Affair," they wrote that Israeli government officials were hushing up facts about the kidnaping of Moroccan Leftist Mehdi ben Barka in 1965. Not only were the French and Moroccan secret services involved in the plot, suggested Bui, but so was Israel...
...Twice in recent months you have published news articles from your correspondent in Saigon, Charles Mohr, which tempt me to comment. In his news article about elections for the Vietnamese Constituent Assembly, Mr. Mohr said: 'It was a momentous event in the history of a people who have never had representative, honestly elected self-government.' Again, in the edition of Oct. 2, Mr. Mohr wrote from Saigon: The members of the Assembly have been chosen in the first really free and fair national election ever held here.' These statements, I think, carry on a tradition ot" misleading...
...problems, of course, not the least of which is the danger. Eight correspondents have died, a dozen have been seriously wounded, and nearly 100 have been nicked. Sheer endurance is a useful skill. "You pay dearly for a misspent life of martinis and cigarettes," says New York Timesman Charles Mohr. "And when you finally do arrive, there is the possibility that you will find Peter Arnett or Horst Faas of A.P. there ahead...
Although the Administration devoted a very large portion of the Honolulu conference to this central problem, the success of Premier Ky's rural pacification plans remains doubtful. According to Mohr, "after five years of war, the allies are starting from scratch in this field, and that progress must be slow." The allies will have to destroy the Viet Cong's powerful political organization before they can begin to build a viable political structure, and to date they have never ventured into areas under heavy Communist influence which comprise the largest part of South Vietnam...