Word: press
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back demanding proof that they are not down with some moon bug." Berry publicly discouraged Richard Nixon from dining with the astronauts on the eve of their flight, lest the President pass on germs. When the crew members made their final pre-launch public appearance at a press briefing in Houston eleven days before liftoff, they entered the room wearing rubber masks to cover their mouths and noses and sat within a tentlike glass canopy. Both precautions were designed to reduce the risk of infection...
...though he reiterated an oft-stated campaign theme that their solution depended on stimulating foreign trade. There was, in fact, little startling news anywhere in the conference, in sharp contrast to De Gaulle's habit of almost invariably springing a front-page surprise. But Pompidou convinced both the press and his nationwide TV audience that his government was pretty much what he had promised: competent and responsive to demands for gradual change...
Heavily criticized abroad for its repressive policy of apartheid, the South African government takes its points of pride where it can find them. For years it has proudly pointed to the country's free press. But freedom ends at the racial barrier. Laurence Gandar, editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, has long been one of the few resident journalists bold enough to prod gently for gradual integration of the black majority. His reasoned crusading earned him the wide respect of foreign colleagues and the disfavor of the government for the past dozen years...
During his eight-month trial, Gandar argued that he had corroborated the stories before publishing them and spoke of his paper's disclosures as being "in accordance with the role of the free press throughout the world." Surprise Witness William Rees-Mogg, editor of the London Times, praised Gandar's integrity and argued that "newspapers are concerned about people unable to defend their own interests...
...this related only peripherally to the prosecution, which actually seemed to be based on Gandar's past op position to racial policies and the fact that the prison stories had been picked up by the foreign press. Editors, argued the prosecutor, should refrain from publishing material that might embarrass the government abroad...