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...controllers are intense and self-confident men (their ranks include few women) who are polished professionals. Day after day, unheard by the passengers riding in the sky, controllers spot pilots who have strayed into trouble and direct them to safety. A disaster could occur during even the most mundane procedure???beginning with taxiing out to the end of the runway, as Tenerife grimly demonstrated...
...leaker may be fired if discovered; the reporter puts his professional standards on the line. There are some situations in which leaks should not be printed. If the material contains real national security secrets?there are some?restraint is clearly called for. If a leak clearly violates accepted legal procedure???in a grand jury hearing or a trial, for instance?publication is justified only if it serves some obvious and overriding public interest. Such cases are rare, and the leaks that are all too common in criminal proceedings, though ostensibly published to satisfy the "people's right to know," often...
Help from Hubert. In the interim, Dirksen met almost daily with his top legal aides?three experts on constitutional rights and administrative procedure???and the four men picked the House bill apart. After weeks, they had accumulated a sheaf of some 70 amendments, many technical, some substantive. This was the em-ryonic Dirksen "substitute package...
...fruit of a delirious imagination. There never was a secret agreement between Clemenceau and Wilson. . . . To qualify as a secret agreement a project which was for six weeks in the hands of the British delegation as well as the American delegation . . . is either an inept or malevolent procedure???perhaps both...
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