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...long weekend, while reporters and other interested in Evans's last public address tried to gain access to the tape, the University withheld it until ownership could be established. A question was whether the tape belonged to the University or the Evans estate...
...procedural obstacles that bureaucrats had set up to frustrate the law's purpose, which was to make available to the public all but the most sensitive federal documents. As a result, officials are speedily granting many of the requests for information, and a mass of formerly withheld material is being turned over to academic researchers, reporters and other citizens...
...appeal to the courts if an agency refuses to turn over documents; it is up to the Government to prove that the material must be kept secret to preserve national security, protect confidential sources or for some other valid reason. If a judge agrees that the information was capriciously withheld, the official responsible may be reprimanded, suspended or even dismissed...
...Mexico Senator Joseph Montoya had bought in Hong Kong. The Washington Post got the State Department to open up files on official foreign gifts to former President Nixon and his family. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman obtained 17,000 pages of research and other materials that the Army had withheld on the My Lai massacre...
...country was better served by a watchful press." Adds Columnist Tom Wicker of the New York Times, who criticized his own paper's restraint: "It is hard to see how a news organization-let alone so many -could have thought such a story ought to be withheld...