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...International Press Institute (IPI), the 23-year-old organization founded in Switzerland to protect beleaguered newsmen round the world, has issued its gloomiest annual report. IPI finds the world press in 1974 "under open attack on all fronts...
...driver smashed the car into a steel guard rail. Both kidnapers and kidnaped staggered out. Although one gunman pointed a pistol at D'Angerio and demanded that he follow along, the prince trotted the other way. With a thoroughly modern sense of noblesse oblige, he told newsmen later, "I uttered a rude word in Neapolitan and made an internationally understood gesture with my right arm before disappearing into the fog." The kidnapers were not so lucky. One of them left his wallet and identification in the wrecked car, which the police hope will lead to the capture...
...Newsmen should pry into the private life of a public figure only when they have reason to believe his private actions are illegal, represent a conflict of interest or otherwise influence his official performance...
...powers as chairman were due to be curbed by a reform-minded Democratic caucus in any case, it looked as if he could keep his chair if he was willing to fight for it. Then came his fatal foray into Boston, a trip that Mills undertook, he later told newsmen, to dispel rumors that he had been having an affair with Fanne Foxe. The trip had exactly the opposite result, and saddened and dismayed House members declared that Mills...
...Until recently, as a matter of course, the Government radio network heard round the world in 36 languages reported on opposition stirring within Communist countries. Now Voice executives are trying to avoid "provocative" stories. In the process, they have restricted VGA correspondents to the point where many of the newsmen feel that legitimate stories are being suppressed. Some editors and reporters in the radio's U.S.S.R. division have grumbled about interference from the glavlit-the Russian term for official censor...