Word: press
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That is so even though laws have been on the books since 1917 banning intentional disclosure of defense secrets that could harm the U.S. The laws are so broad and so murky that in theory they could be aimed at leakers and the press. In practice, however, they are used only on spies. Part of the reason is the First Amendment. But prosecuting leaks also runs a different risk: confirming that the leaked information is true, and disclosing even more secrets at a trial. This dilemma has vexed the Government for years in conventional espionage cases, but it drew little...
Congress at least seems to be in the mood to try. Pressure is growing for an overdue revision of national security laws. Whether Congress can better balance the inherent conflict between national security and the rights of fair trial and free press remains, however, to be seen...
...times the sheer commotion of the visit threatened to engulf any real musical results. The center of excitement was the conservatory. When Violinist Joseph Silverstein wandered into a studio where Situ Dahong, 18, was practicing, the room was quickly jammed by other students, teachers and members of the press, including a CBS camera crew in full armor. The young man kept playing a Bach adagio, but it was a feat of poise. The next day, 500 violinists came for Silverstein's master class, some from hundreds of miles away. Only the tuba (ten) and the harp (20) drew fewer...
Rhodesia's journalistic arms race first came to international attention last year after Freelancer J. Ross Baughman won a Pulitzer Prize for his Associated Press photograph of a suspected Rhodesian guerrilla; it turned out that the photo had earlier been rejected for an Overseas Press Club a Ward, in part because the judges learned that Baughman was armed and wearing a Rhodesian cavalry uniform. Then Richard Valentine Cecil, a British television correspondent and TIME stringer, was killed last April by guerrillas, reportedly while carrying a rifle and accompanying an army detachment. A check by TIME turned up an arsenal...
...through it can be deeply self-abusive and cynical. A Soviet journalist tells Bukovsky that he is happy with Communism because it allows him to earn a good living writing demagogic rubbish. "In a normal country," he says, "they wouldn't let me within a mile of the press! What would I be do ing? Working as a navvy." The most pervasive reality, bureaucratic absurdity, al lows Bukovsky to score even in the last wild moments of his captivity...