Senator Mel Hansen complained that the newspaper treated him unfairly when it edited and deleted portions of his letter to the editor without discussing the changes with him before publication. The letter had been solicited by the paper as a means of satisfying a complaint Hansen had over a previous story.

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Elizabeth S. Guthrie of Orono complained that the paper’s aggressive reporting about a local kidnapping endangered the life of the victim when it assigned a reporter to follow the course of ransom-drop attempts. She claimed that the paper acted illegally when it monitored and reported on police-band radio broadcasts about the kidnapping because a federal statute prohibits such reporting without permission from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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