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Show Goldy Slams Manipulation WASHINGTON (AP)--Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., has accused the Kennedy administration of "blackouts, distortions, fabrication and falsification of news" in an effort to perpetuate itself. Goldwater, a leading possibility for the 1964 Republican presidential presiden-tial nomination, said in a prepared speech before the National Women's Wom-en's Press Club that the fate of the nation may depend on objective objec-tive reporting by "Washington correspondents. cor-respondents. "Objective reporting and the judicial interpretation of events offer the greatest opportunities for public service in today's journalism," Goldwater said. "The importance of such objectivity objec-tivity today is so vital that upon it well may depend more than upon any other single factor the future of our government." He said "the manipulation of news by this administration has become a pretty big project." He said the Kennedy administration administra-tion had "displayed its affinity for such practices at the national level to a somewhat startling degree." |