如果遲一日曝光

告密者身份曝光時，特首應還在去美國的飛機上。選擇這個出稿日和曝光日，有否計算這個訪美日程呢？如果遲一日曝光，假設美國政府還沒查到是誰，而仍然是由報紙主動供出身份，一日對美國政府、告密者和報紙的影響不是很大，可是香港訪美團已在訪美活動之中，便狼狽得多。現在訪美團有一日／半日應對。

話說回來，起飛前特首已決定這次訪美不見總統，是否因為早知有有關港美的大新聞？

大亞灣核電廠真的距離香港很遠嗎？

大亞灣核電廠距離香港多遠？視乎定義。它與東平洲相距不到20公里，與大嶼山分流相距85公里（我在Google maps量度過），一般討論都採用50公里，即與尖沙咀的距離。

保安局網頁上的《大亞灣應變計劃》
http://www.sb.gov.hk/chi/emergency/dbcp/section5.htm

...距離香港市區甚遠（約 50 公里）

http://www.sb.gov.hk/chi/emergency/dbcp/section3.htm

...核電站 20 公里的範圍內，即包括大鵬灣及平洲。此外，全港（即在核電站 85 公里範圍內）...

真是甚遠嗎？美國呼籲80公里內的國民離開。
BBC World 2011-03-18
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698  

US has urged American citizens living within 80km (50 miles) of the Fukushima complex to leave; Japan's own exclusion zone is only 20km.

公平一點說，這個距離是被質疑的。
來源同上同日

US officials have defended their proposed 50-mile evacuation zone for US troops and citizens in Japan, much larger than that imposed by Japanese authorities. "I want to stress this is a prudent and precautionary measure to take," Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the nuclear regulatory commission said, according to AP.

煤礦37人遇難，上不了電視新聞

真不要做中國人的孩子。37人死的意外，在哪裡都可以是頭條新聞。在中國發生的話，（香港的）電視新聞連提也不提。報紙也只佔報尾一角。

昼伏夜出 河南一煤矿37人遇难
http://www.shxb.net/html/20080922/20080922_110356.shtml

得逞

明報即時新聞：公安阻家長控訴扣日本記者
150多名家長上午聚集...準備控訴校方偷工減料造成孩子的喪生，結果被50名以上的中國公安阻擋，提訴計畫未能得逞。

Chile: The Other 9/11

• Around the world, many will mourn September 11 in their own way. In Chile, like the United States, many mourn the loss of civil liberties, democracy, and over 3,000 lives on 9/11/73.


• BBC Documentary: Chile: The Other 9/11


• National Security Archive: Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents relating to the Military Coup, 1970-1976


• [Washington Post, preview] [newsmine] CIA May Have Role in Journalist's Murder


• BBC: US 'undermined Chile's democracy'
  

  US funded attempts to undermine the democratically elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a bloody coup in 1973

  
  

  Washington has long denied accusations that it played a direct role in the coup.



• CNN: CIA acknowledges involvement in Allende's overthrow, Pinochet's rise


• CIA's report on its activities in Chile

Further readings:

• BBC Newsmakers: Henry Kissinger: Haunted by his past

  Most notably, charges relating to Latin America have returned to haunt Henry Kissinger. The CIA's involvement in the coup which toppled the elected Chilean leader Salvador Allende and brought General Pinochet to power, has been long well-documented.
  
  "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its people," Kissinger once famously uttered.



• (book) The Trial of Henry Kissinger
• (documentary) The Trials of Henry Kissinger


• [NYTimes] [newsmine] A Coup by Any Other Name
  

  When is a coup not a coup? When the United States says so, it seems — especially if the fallen leader is no friend to American interests.