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...secret. Kraft conceded that in the earlier phases of Watergate, while the cover-up was partly working, journalistic enterprise was necessary to get at the basic facts. Now that the official inquiry is being conducted vigorously, he said, the "traditional inhibitions on reporting" should be applied. Abandoning that restraint, he warned, endangers individuals' rights to due process, threatens to wreck the prosecution's case on procedural grounds and gives journalism a bad name...
...Kraft's demand for restraint, which would be unexceptionable in most cases, raises its own problem in the very special circumstance of Watergate. This unique scandal is far more than a criminal proceeding. It has involved not powerless defendants but some of the nation's most influential officials. There have been repeated attempts to suppress evidence, minimize the case's importance, deflect guilt and hide behind the shibboleth of national security. These factors at first inhibited the press. Now the urge is to print everything obtainable in the belief that self-censorship would be itself a kind...
...strengths are a peculiar quality and modulation of tone, and an ability to find the telling phrase--even her titles bear their own special attraction. Her sentences are dipped in a faint, pastel irony. Her narrators are people in the process of responding deeply, immediately, and with a fascinating restraint that molds it all into words. The hearts of her stories are less plots than the tense tracing of forces in some encounter--an encounter of people, passions, sensibilities...
...meaning more assiduously than Anne Morrow, the shy, highborn girl who married Charles A. Lindbergh at the height of his fame. Her books range from North to the Orient to Gift from the Sea. At their best they establish her as a womanly writer of considerable skill and restraint and justly give her a stature apart from her role as the Lone Eagle's wife. "Damn, damn, damn," she once confided to her diary. "I am sick of being this handmaid to the Lord...
Western reporters like Burns and Hans-Joachim Bargmann of West Germany's D.P.A. news service are spared that kind of restraint and come through with interesting and revealing pieces from time to time. Burns recently risked official displeasure by reporting fresh evidence of recurring xenophobia: "Foreign residents find themselves sternly questioned by police for photographing Peking street scenes...