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...Cocos Islands found the feudalism real enough. On Saturday mornings, for instance, Clunies-Ross meets with six Malay headmen to dispense whatever justice is called for (the most common sentence is two weeks' work without pay). "We have no need of courts as you know them," he told newsmen. "Crime is hardly a problem. In fact, last year we had two thefts, which took up only 45 minutes of our time...
...Middle East last year, also did the article on the Black September group. This week's Essay, by Associate Editor Timothy James, analyzes the problems of making life-or-death decisions, as both German and Israeli officials had to do. The Press section recounts the difficulties that newsmen encountered, traces the erroneous reports to their source and tells how one reporter beat his colleagues to the bitter truth. Sport continues its account of the Olympic Games themselves...
Still, it is difficult to put much of the blame on newsmen. Indeed many reporters, barred from the climactic scene, hesitated when word of the captives' safe release first came from the Bavarian state police, who were responsible for security at the airport in Fürstenfeldbruck. A few journalists were apparently misled when a local pub owner, Ludwig Pollack, passed a rumor near the airport gate that the terrorists had been seized; from this it was inferred that the hostages were safe. But it was only after receiving confirmation from Conrad Ahlers, official spokesman for the West German...
Chicago Style. Up to that point, the coverage of the tragedy had been an exercise in frustration, particularly for the TV networks, which were trying to provide up-to-the-minute reports. At the Olympic Village, newsmen were kept away from Building 31, where the Israelis were being held. Later, at the airport, armed guards accompanied by attack dogs kept reporters and cameras outside the 6½-ft. fence...
...Obviously, my campaign suffered from all this too. Also, I truly believe that I was hurt by the press." "Humphrey seemed disdainful of newsmen, and calls them "newsies", "In September, when I drew 20,000 in Seattle and then 50,000 in Philadelphia, in both cases, the cameras weren't on me or the crowd; they were on the 50 or so demonstrators trying to break up the meeting...