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...finally proven themselves archaic in both form and sensibility, as evidenced by their inability to capture the immediacy and disjointed folly of this most foreign of American wars. Now Herr's book was something else, and they called it everything imaginable: rock 'n' roll reporting; a personal journal; a transcript of the "mad-pop-poetic/ bureaucratically camouflaged language in which Viet Nam was lived...
...passage the politically sophisticated Wyszynski had reminded the nation of "the difficulty with which we regained our freedom after 125 years"-a reference to Poland's long domination by foreign powers, and an implicit warning against provoking a Soviet invasion. The broadcast, and a subsequent transcript in the party daily, made it appear that the church was supporting the government against the strikes. But the Polish Episcopate later complained that the edited version of the sermon had been used without its authorization...
Sometimes the Pentagon's censors are too clever by half. Or by whole. Take this excerpt from the transcript of closed-door testimony on the 1981 defense budget that was released after sensitive information had been snipped out by the Defense Department: "On Jan. 14, there were 110 F-14s at Miramar [a naval air station near San Diego]. Of these aircraft, a total of [deleted] F-14s, or 47%, were classified as mission capable. The remaining [deleted] F-14s, or 53%, were grounded for parts and maintenance...
...symposium treatment." TIME assembled five experts on military manpower problems, who joined 19 TIME staffers for a 5½-hour seminar in the Time-Life Building in New York City. The results not only inevitably helped shape this week's cover story but produced an edited transcript of the discussion that follows the main story...
...taunts continued. One officer used his stick on one fellow and the riot began. It lasted well into the night and a lot of boys wound up in jail, some of them hurt quite badly. It was a big story for the Herald next morning and for the Transcript and the Traveler in the afternoon...