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SCHNEIDER'S words proved more grimly prophetic than he could have imagined. Indeed, for a few days last week, it appeared that the failure of an essential protective shield shortly after launch had touched off a chain of events that would result in disaster for the entire $2.5 billion program. But at week's end, as the crippled Skylab continued to orbit the earth, a combination of space-age teamwork and old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity on the part of NASA raised hopes that the mission could yet be salvaged. In fact, the mishap and the bold reaction...
...press has always considered privileged. Last June the Supreme Court ruled in the Government's favor, saying that the First Amendment does not offer automatic protection against such subpoenas. The issue remains cloudy. The courts can quash individual subpoenas, and Congress is considering giving newsmen a statutory shield. Meanwhile, newsmen who print material that arouses a grand jury's curiosity may still face a choice between divulging their sources or going to jail. But if ever there was proof of the need for the press to be able to keep its sources confidential, Watergate...
...exactly During a recent desperate search for additional financing (TIME, April 2), Charney and his partner John Veronis had approached a number of large publishing and communications corporations. "What we needed," says Charney, "was a corporate shield to survive. We needed someone to take us on so that Madison Avenue would say, 'O.K., here's an institution, here's stability...
...Congress, several shield bills are still under consideration, and one is likely to pass within the year. Whichever bill emerges is certain to have immediate import because it will apply a national standard by which the courts can judge confidentiality...
...Stanford is a private institution and there are others of its caliber, Harvard included, which would probably take similar action under the same circumstances. Judge Haynsworth has provided relief for the much larger group of state university papers which now have a shield of their own against high-handed administrators and regents with political clout...