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...connection with leaks. As the accompanying cover story points out (see pages 68-73), the reporter's and editor's decisions must depend on many factors-the nature of the leak, its apparent accuracy, on whether it comes from a judicial body or otherwise. He must weigh the possible damage to individual reputations against the public interest. The journalist cannot assert the right to print everything and anything; he must decide each case on its merits, while remaining accountable to his editor and, ultimately, to his audience. The decision is usually a battle of conscience waged by journalists...
...easily perverted. But Graham is groping wildly in connecting situation ethics and the Watergate coverup. Says Theologian Joseph Fletcher, author of Situation Ethics: the New Morality: "It is a misinterpretation. Those involved in Watergate weren't conducting themselves according to situation ethics. They didn't weigh the moral options. Their one guiding principle was to win at any price. Graham knows or ought to know better...
...then, at least in technical legal terms. The statute of limitations will not have expired in any of the major situations confronting him. There are, of course, shifting and unknowable factors, including public pressures for or against prosecution. But allowing for the play of those uncertainties, the President must weigh the timing and tactics of resigning now against the alternative of waiting until his term is ended either naturally or by conviction on impeachment charges...
...claustrophobic feeling of personal guilt that made '60s radicals feel that insufficient militance today would mean the deaths of hundreds of Vietnamese tomorrow. But the Honeywell demonstration--which considerably surpassed its organizers expectations--suggests the influence memory of the war still exerts on students. Some dead generations continue to weigh on the minds of the living, even if there is a new mood to Harvard politics--but less like a nightmare, maybe, than like a history lesson...
...choice is not personal; it is public. The smoker has no right to determine the quality of air that the rest of those in a room will breathe. And there is no public good to be weighed against the damage smoking causes, as one can weigh the benefits of the automobile against traffic deaths. There is nothing good about smoking. It relieves tension, but it also causes it. It keeps some smokers from getting fat, but it robs them of good health in the process. If, after considering this, smokers do not want to quit, that is a matter...