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Based on mounds of existing material, public hearings and a three-day private session with some 50 journalists, the report was prepared by people with little experience in journalism. Its section on the news media (there is a larger section on TV entertainment and violence) was written mainly by Robert Baker, 29, a former attorney in the Justice Department. Baker apparently had few illusions about the immediate impact of the report. At the end of his press section, he wrote: "The government can no more legislate good journalism than it can legislate good manners. More important than the adoption...
...jetted about the Middle East last week, it looked as if Gamal Abdel Nasser were going acourtin' once more. Extending a three-day Libyan visit to six days, he drew crowds of 40,000 in Tripoli, 65,000 in Benghazi. He further delighted Libyans by appearing as a witness at the wedding of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 27, the nation's revolutionary leader, to Fathia Khaled, daughter of an army officer. In Khartoum, he joined Major General Jaafar Numeiry, Sudan's boss since an army coup last year, in celebrating the country's 14th anniversary of independence...
Agnew's first foreign stop is in Manila, to attend the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. The three-day layover-and loose schedule -give Agnew a chance to make an unannounced visit to South Viet...
...Brussels last month, delegates from 49 countries met to tackle the problem of assigning liability for oil spills on the high seas. What is left unsolved is a really efficient way of removing oil from the ocean without further damaging marine life. In Manhattan last week, oilmen attending a three-day conference on oil spills, sponsored by the Federal Government and the oil industry, were told that spreading straw on top of the water is still one of the best ways to sop up the black tide. But, as Lavon P. Haxby, an expert on oil control...
...World War II naval hero of the Battle of Midway, turning point of the Pacific war; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In June 1942, Spruance and Admiral Frank Fletcher led a task force of 353 warplanes and 50 fighting ships against a vastly superior Japanese armada, and in a three-day battle sank four of the imperial navy's carriers, thereby virtually destroying its main offensive punch...