Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives off the main highway, a two-lane, black-top affair. A rutty dirt road leads to his gate and a sign warning off all trespassers not on foot. From a parked green Capri, the two flat-landers later seen by the source stared at us in a not altogether pleasant manner, and they were big and ugly and smelt sort of funny so I gave the biggest and ugliest of them--a bulging, pale fish-eyed creature with sweated-back hair and a dim-witted, monotone voice--a warm beer. He smiled...
...threat here and a shove there, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has continued to push toward the goal of reducing foreign reporters in India to flacks for her authoritarian regime. At first the government seemed to be backing down after criticism of its demand that all journalists from abroad sign away their freedom to report events by pledging to "comply" with strait-jacket censorship guidelines. Reporters were instead handed an alternative pledge that acknowledged their receipt of the guidelines but did not contain any flat-out promise to obey them. A debate quickly followed over whether the distinction in phrasing marked...
Many Signers. Most journalists finally agreed to sign-many under instructions from their home office-hoping to continue reporting at any cost. The reasoning was that the ambiguous language of the revised pledge could be regarded as innocuous. United Press International, for example, accepted the agreement, saying: "Nothing in the revised statement ... would prevent it from continuing to give a full and balanced account of events in India." Agence France-Presse and West German correspondents also submitted to the arrangement-the latter on the advice of their government...
...correspondent that he will be responsible for whatever he writes." Newsweek magazine too, had refused to accept the original pledge, and as a result, Correspondent Loren Jenkins became one of the first reporters to be expelled from India. But within seven days, another Newsweek correspondent, Ron Moreau, did sign on the ground that the second pledge was harmless...
...journalists never signed at all. Voice of America Reporter James B. Miller argued that he had quasi-diplomatic status and therefore could not submit to the statement. The Indians allowed him to remain-at least temporarily. TIME Correspondent David Aikman, with the concurrence of his editors, decided to leave the country rather than sign the revised pledge. Said Aikman: "If I agreed to comply with the guidelines, I would not be an honest correspondent, but if I signed a pledge I was not willing to keep, I would not be an honest...