After controversy prompted Ald. Ken Golden, District 10, to yank his proposal offering sanctuary to the Dixie Chicks in Madison, the city council Tuesday adopted a substitute resolution that defends the right to \freely express dissent by criticizing the President of the United States or any other elected official.""
In other business, the council unanimously granted approval to developer Wayne Dishaw's proposal to build a 12-story apartment building on the site of the Badger Pantry, 437 W. Gorham St. Construction on the project is slated to begin this summer.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who blew the whistle on the Watergate scandal in 1972, sold their notes, transcripts and taped interviews used for the story to the University of Texas for $5 million, according to a report in the New York Times.
The university announced the deal Tuesday. Its Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center will catalog the materials and eventually release most of them to the public, but the identities of key sources including ""Deep Throat"" will be kept confidential until those sources die.
At approximately 4:45 p.m., 25 peace activists filled the lobby of the WMTV NBC-affiliate television station, 615 Forward Dr., and performed a skit called ""Weapons of Mass Deception"" Tuesday.
The theatrical activists, called the S.P.I.T. Media Inspection Team, executed the skit to convey dissatisfaction with war coverage, which they cited as predominantly framed to support the war.
When police halted the protest, 20 activists left the building in compliance. Five who refused to leave were arrested.
