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...Inquirer in 1969 to a forerunner of the Knight-Ridder chain, the city's dominant paper was the rival Bulletin, which advertised, more or less accurately, "In Philadelphia, nearly everyone reads the Bulletin." The Inquirer was uncreative, undistinguished-it even employed an investigative reporter who took money to suppress stories-and in danger of dying an unmourned death...
...only a small fraction of University research. Harvard, for instance, only receives about $4 million, a small portion of the more than $100 million the entire federal government doles out here. But the quest for censorship in this area is indicative of the general Administration instinct concerning information--to suppress...
...explanation for this unprecedented attack on the country's traditions of free and open debate is national security. But, as Lecturer on the Core Program Sissela Bok has observed, such efforts to suppress information usually weaken a democratic society--rather than strengthen it. "Short of turning an open society into a garrison state," she wrote recently in the Crimson, "it will simply not be possible to restrict trade, scholarship, scientific exchanges, publication and news reporting enough to achieve the desired society...
More dangerous than his jabs at Congressional democrats, however, is the assault on the very structure of American democracy implicit in Reagan's speech. Besides challenging the concept of separation of powers and the system of checks and balances. Reagan would suppress all public opposition to his policies for the sake of maintaining our credibility abroad. The President is right to underscore the potentially positive impact of outward unity in international negotiations, but he goes too far in asking for a blank check both from Congress and from the American public...
...criticism from consumer groups and politicians. In Congress, critics threatened legislation either to block the deal or at least to prevent any further oil mergers. Thundered Ohio Congressman John Seiberling, a Democrat: "It is time to send a message to the oil industry-unrestrained mergers between huge companies suppress competition, endanger our energy independence and threaten productive drive in this country...