Last Updated: June 29, 1999
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ASNE
on the move
ASNE called on the governments of the United States and Mexico to more
energetically pursue prosecution and to share more information on their
investigation into the murder of American journalist Philip True.
Mexico City bureau chief of the San Antonio Express-News, True was killed
in 1998 while hiking in Mexico.
The leadership American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 12 stated:
ASNE urges the administrations of President Bill Clinton and President
Ernesto Zedillo to vigorously pursue the prosecution of the case of Philip
True, a journalist for the San Antonio Express-News. The two governments
also should make available to the press all relevent documentation in the
investigation, especially the complete autopsy reports and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation’s independent files.
