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Fleet Street's timidity seemed well intact recently when the pro-Tory Daily Mail held off publishing the results of its probe into a land-profiteering deal involving two associates of Labor Party leader Harold Wilson (TIME, April 15 and April 22) until after the February election. But editors, who had been increasingly restless while watching American journalists pursue Watergate vigorously, decided to be sheep no longer. On April 3, a month after Wilson returned to power as Prime Minister, the Mail and Daily Express both broke front-page stories on the transaction. Enraged, Wilson issued libel writs against...
Behind the Lines. NET's weekly probe of the American press. Tonight: How ethical are newspaper and TV reporters and editors? Should they accept free junkets from those they cover? Endorse commercial products? Take public stands on political issues? Interviews with Walter Cronkite, Harrison Salisbury, and Tom Wicker. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...Mondale subcommittee probe last week of the Epilepsy Foundation of America revealed that straightforward aid to the needy is far from a certainty. Mondale's investigators found that more than half of the $4 million the E.F.A. spent last year went to meet fund-raising and administrative costs. The Senator fears that similar slipshod management may be going on in other children's charities. To correct such abuse, he thinks it may become necessary to require charitable groups to adopt uniform accounting procedures. Other possible strictures: limit the amount they spend on fund-raising promotions and include brief...
...supporter, wondered if he did not deserve better treatment than he was getting at the hands of the IRS. According to a 1971 memo from Caulfield to Dean, the IRS had demanded back taxes of $251,116 from Wayne for the years 1964 through 1966. As part of his probe, Caulfield examined the records of audits by the IRS of returns filed by a cross section of politicians and show-business personalities, both for and against Nixon. They included Richard Boone, Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. All had been...
...University of Maryland dropout, Woodward was a smooth Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that the odd couple made an ideal journalistic team...