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...words are not those of some member of the Nixon Administration but of a working newsman, the assistant editorial-page editor of the New York Times. When A.H. Raskin wrote them three years ago, he suggested that newspapers combat their smugness by appointing ombudsman-like editors to investigate readers' complaints. The suggestion has been largely ignored by U.S. newspapers, including Raskin's own. But at least two papers-the jointly owned Louisville Courier-Journal and Times -have tried...
Grandfatherly John Herchenroeder, 62, a former city editor, was appointed ombudsman at the Louisville papers only a few weeks after Raskin's idea appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Since then he has handled complaints from nearly 1,500 readers. Some have resulted in corrections under a standing headline, BEG YOUR PARDON. Some have persuaded the paper to run new stories. Many upset readers have been satisfied simply with a chance to talk to someone in authority...
...five-Coffin, Goodman, Dr. Benjamin Spock. Marcus Raskin, director of the Institute of Political Studies in Washington; and Michael K. Ferber, a former graduate student here-were charged with conspiring to counsel young men to evade the draft...
...attorney Herbert Travers told the federal District Court in Boston that available evidence-and the acquittal of Spock, Ferber, and Raskin-"does not warrant the retrial of Coffin and Goodman...
Coffin, Ferber, Goodman, and Spock were convicted in June, 1968. Raskin was acquitted. However, a Federal appeals court later set aside the convictions, directing that Ferber and Spock be acquitted and that Coffin and Goodman be given now trials...