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...other parts of the building, workers were seen hanging plastic sheets that appeared to shield unaffected parts of the building from the restoration work...
...future, the best hope for journalists may be a federal shield law, now in Congress, which would let reporters keep sources confidential under any circumstances. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have shield laws, while 18 additional states have similar protections. A federal law has been proposed by Senator Richard Lugar and Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, who have signed up dozens of co-sponsors. It's not that legislators love the media. But when it comes to advancing their politics, legislators can be world-class leakers and could have as much to lose as journalists. --With reporting...
...subpoenaed records, we shall continue to support the protection of confidential sources. We do so with the knowledge that forty-nine states and the District of Columbia now recognize some form of protection for confidential sources, and that legislation is now pending in Congress to enact a federal shield law for confidential sources...
Ever since Reagan announced his plan in 1983 for "rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" through a space-based shield of missile-killing satellites, the Soviets have seemed almost fixated on blocking the plan. Partly, experts speculate, it is because they fear the U.S. has a strong advantage in developing new technologies. Also, the Soviets see their arsenal of missiles as fundamental to protection of their homeland and their status as a world superpower...
Meanwhile, the superpowers have passed in the night on the issue of strategic defense. In March 1983 Reagan proclaimed his dream of a comprehensive, impregnable, space-based shield that would render offensive nuclear forces "impotent and obsolete." He has argued that deterrence based on the threat of retaliation is immoral and a "defense that really defends" is benevolent, an eerie echo of Kosygin's rebuttal to McNamara at Glassboro. Proponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative charge that the Soviet offensive buildup proves that the U.S.S.R. never really accepted the logic of McNamara's argument and has violated the spirit...