Word: reported
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Poignantly, these events are occurring just after a meeting of the nation's bishops that endorsed a blueprint for stepped-up evangelism among blacks. A special report to the hierarchy warned that experts are deeply concerned about attrition among black Catholics "leaving the church for Protestant denominations where they will feel more at home." As developments in the two cities indicate, the losses could just be beginning...
Coming even as the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation of practices at the Rocky Flats, Colo., nuclear-weapons plant, the report sketched a variety of lapses. Many were not disclosed, said Democratic Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, committee and subcommittee chairman, because of "obsessive secrecy." Among them...
...technician following municipal guidelines. By another 6-to-3 vote, the court threw out a $97,500 judgment won by a rape victim against the Florida Star. The small, weekly Jacksonville paper had, contrary to state law, / published the victim's name after obtaining it from a public police report. If the government has made information publicly available, wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall, those who publish it should not be punished...
SUNSPOT, N. MEX.: senior correspondent J. Madeleine Nash has been eager to report a story from that intriguing dateline since she learned of its existence at a gathering of astronomers last year. For this week's cover, Nash finally got her wish. "Sunspot isn't properly a town," she says, but a "singularly beautiful place, high on a mountain peak, that is one of the world's most important centers of solar research." The day after her arrival, Nash looked through a telescope "longer than a football field" to view the rising sun. She glimpsed a stunning, white-hot world...
...Giamatti had biased himself outrageously. George Palmer, a former state-appeals-court judge, and Samuel Dash, famed Senate counsel during the Watergate hearings, last week took the stand on Rose's behalf to endorse that view. They thought Dowd's 225- page finding read less like an investigator's report than a prosecutor's indictment...