The AP Muddies the Water.

Focuses on a statement made by the Associated Press that its staff was augmented by staffs of member newspapers and affiliated newspaper services in foreign countries. Description of efforts to break up the European monopoly of the news agency Reuters Ltd. by director of Associated Press (AP) Kent Cooper in his book "Barriers Down"; Acquisition of the right of access to the news gathering facilities of newspapers by AP; Distribution of advertising matters by Press Associations Inc., subsidiary of AP; Meeting of members of AP; View that the statement was intended to block or impede the government prosecution.