Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator was emphasized even further last week by a TIME poll in which voters stated by a dramatic margin that the issue of Chappaquiddick would not prevent them from voting for Kennedy. TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian spent several hours with the Senator last week and wrote this report...
...party with a group of single women on that night in July 1969; only 15% say they are greatly disturbed by his having gone off alone with Mary Jo Kopechne. The greatest concern, expressed by about 40% of those polled, is that he waited until morning to report the accident to police and did not immediately tell the whole story about it to the public. But the people questioned believe, by 42% to 35% (with 22% not sure), that he did eventually report it truthfully...
While Treu was being secretly tried this spring, the Canadian government used the Official Secrets Act for the first time against a newspaper, prosecuting the Toronto Sun for disclosing a top-secret Mountie report on Soviet espionage. Critics complain that the Sun, a persistent right-wing gadfly to the Trudeau government, is being charged not with spilling secrets but with revealing government ineptness at dealing with Soviet spies...
...Colonel B affair underlines the curious history of the Official Secrets Act, which dates from 1896 in Britain and 1939 in Canada. Although, as one former British Attorney General put it, The Act can make it a crime "to report the number of cups of tea consumed per week in a government department," in fact there have been few prosecutions. That is explained partly by intimidation, partly by government restraint and partly by the British and Canadian press's deference to the need for government secrecy...
...Information Legislation in the fall, and demand for similar legislation is building in Britain. Still, the chance for any real loosening is perhaps illustrated by what happened a few years ago to an internal Canadian government study on ways to increase public access: the Bureaucrats who ordered up the report promptly stamped it CONFIDENTIAL...