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Not By Those Rules.(Executive Editor of Stars and Stripes resigns)(Brief Article)

By Robertson, Lori
Publication: American Journalism Review
Date: Sunday, October 1 2000

Stars & Stripes Executive Editor David B. Offer cries censorship and hands in his resignation after being ordered to kill a story. The piece, which was slated to run September 1, revealed that the Pentagon could deploy an Army Patriot antimissile battery to Israel, due to concern that Iraq might fire missiles at that country. Publisher Thomas Kelsch says he ordered that it be kept out of the paper, a government publication for U.S. military personnel living abroad, after Pentagon official Clifford Bernath told him publication would " 'endanger the lives of personnel.'" Information

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