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...HYSTERIA ABOUT shield laws for newspaper reporters has subsided since the national media saturated American readers in January and February with argument and counter-argument on its First Amendment sanctity...
Almost half of the states are likely to adopt at least a partial shield for reporters; some have passed legislation giving newsmen full protection of sources before grand juries and other judiciary bodies...
...Maurice Stans, Nixon's former Commerce Secretary and head of his re-election finance committee. Much of this money, gathered secretly from donors who did not wish to be identified publicly, was earmarked for vague "security" or "intelligence" purposes. Some of it was sent through Mexico to shield the identity of the sources. The re-election committee has already paid $8,000 in fines for failing to record and report contributions in violation of new campaign financing disclosure laws...
...Shield legislation would presumably prevent government agencies from questioning reporters about confidential sources...
...three Fellows--Carl Sims, editor of the Bay State Banner, Peter Jay '62, of The Washington Post, and Edwin Williams, of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times--said they would rather rely on the first amendment than "shield laws...