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...weeks ago, however, a group of investigative reporters who write a regular feature in the London Sunday Times known as "Insight," obtained statements written by eleven prisoners describing the interrogations and tortures they had supposedly undergone. But none of the prisoners could say where all this had taken place, because they had been blindfolded at the time...
Government Inquiry. For several weeks the "Insight" reporters searched for clues. Finally they had a stroke of luck: they managed to interview two former prisoners who told a sensational story of interrogation at Holywood Barracks near Belfast. Among other things, "Insight" was able to report definitely last week, prisoners had been kept in darkness for days at a time without food, had been subjected to a barrage of deafening noise, had been made to perform excruciatingly tiring exercises. Purpose of these "disorientation" techniques: to force the prisoners to give away the location of I.R.A. gunmen and arms. The methods...
Splitting Royalties. The "Insight" team that caused all this stir consists primarily of three young reporters, reinforced on occasion by specialists and correspondents. Their editor, John Barry, 29, weaves their accounts together, retaining, he says, "the individual perceptions." He insists that "the 'Insight' operation is a group of journalists, but not group journalism." They produce a stream of well researched, pungently written reports on such varied subjects as arms sales to South Africa, prison riots, the phony labeling of French wines and drugged race horses...
Beginning to Dig. The members of the "Insight" team are constantly changing, to provide a flow of new ideas and fresh energy. Thus in the nine years since it was founded the group has had six editors and 30 reporters, mostly in their 20s. Says former "Insight" Editor Bruce Page: "We use absolutely standard reporting practices. We talk to people, write it down, check it back. We have no new gimmicks." What they do have is the ability to write vividly-young Englishmen seem to surpass their American counterparts in this respect-and the sort of franchise that a team...
...Klux Klan in the '40s, an affiliation he has since recanted, Byrd, 53, has a less than statesmanlike record in the Senate. There he has consistently sided with Southern conservatives on civil rights issues and is noted for his "industry" rather than his legal erudition or constitutional insight. Indeed, he has never practiced law. He earned his law degree in 1963 by studying at night, and has yet to pass a bar examination. Even Attorney General John Mitchell demurred when Byrd's name was raised. But one account has it that Treasury Secretary John Connally, Democrat and close...