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...road," said one of the passengers as they headed toward a highway where los muchachos?the guerrillas?were collecting "war taxes" from passing vehicles. Along the roadside lay the now commonplace evidence of the country's brutal strife: hacked and mutilated carcasses of the dead, some men, some teenagers. Newsmen could not determine why they were killed, or by whom. But one stripped corpse of a youth, lying face down, had a short rope around the neck?a telltale sign often left behind by the national guard...
...second controversy centered on wiretaps placed on 17 officials and newsmen from May 1969 to February 1971, a period when Nixon was concerned that leaks might compromise military operations and sensitive negotiations. "The wiretapping was linked by some to Watergate to prove that the Nixon Administration had a pervasive inclination to unlawful behavior," writes Kissinger. "On this issue hypocrisy is rampant. Wiretaps may be unpalatable, but they are as ubiquitous as the telephone and almost as old. Wiretapping by past Presidents of both political parties seems to have been more widespread, with fewer safeguards and looser standards, than under Nixon...
...fighting intensifies in El Salvador, the race for the story among U.S. journalists is heating up too. With big-name correspondents pouring in for this month's national elections, resident newsmen are increasingly hard-pressed to provide action for home consumption. TIME Caribbean Correspondent Bernard Diederich describes the scramble...
...heat is on to produce footage to accompany what some newsmen call "Mr. Haig's war." Compared with earlier days, there is less camaraderie and pack journalism, there are fewer collective safaris. The competition often borders on frenzy. The TV networks are under pressure to produce bang-bang. "Bang-bang," explains one network TV producer, "is the hook that gets it into the tin. A massacre will do it also." But the army and the guerrillas are not always cooperative. At times there is no bang-bang-at least the networks and still photographers can't find...
Chafets also cited an incident last May involving two newsmen from the Times and one each from the Post, Associated Press and Newsweek. The five were having drinks at the Commodore Hotel in Beirut when they decided to try to follow up a report that Israeli commandos had landed near Damur, twelve miles south of the capital. They rushed off to cover the story, leaving behind their passports and press identification cards. At about 2 a.m., they were stopped by Palestinian militiamen and detained when they could not prove that they were journalists. At least two of the newsmen felt...