The protracted dispute between journalists and Government officials over the protection of confidential sources and unpublished material has yielded few victories for the newsmen. Last week, however, the press won a key battle in Washington, D.C.'s Federal District Court. The case grew out of civil litigation between the Democratic National Committee and the Committee for the Re-Election of the President over the Watergate bugging incident. The Republican side got subpoenas covering ten reporters and executives of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Star-News and TIME. Rather than surrender confidential files, notebooks and tapes, the publications resisted (TIME, March...
The Press: Subpoenas (Contd.)
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