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AP gratuitously inserted claims of rapes committed by U.S. service members in Cambodia in 1970 that had been fabricated in 1997 into an obituary in 2007. “ Jul 11, 4:43 PM EDT Correction: David Mason Obit LONDON (AP) -- In a June 27 obituary for veteran AP correspondent David Mason, The Associated Press erroneously referred to a 1970 AP story from Cambodia as having reported raping by U.S. troops during the allied incursion against North Vietnamese communist forces there. An initial AP dispatch, filed from Saigon on May 4, 1970, described looting by U.S. soldiers at the Cambodian town of Snuol. The mention of looting was removed by an editor in New York before the story was transmitted to newspapers in the United States. Mason, who was AP bureau chief in Saigon at the time, complained about the deletion and AP general manager Wes Gallagher ordered the reference restored. No versions of the 1970 story from Saigon reported rape. That erroneous reference first appeared 27 years later, in AP obituaries for Gallagher on Oct. 11, 1997, and Oct. 13, 1997, from Santa Barbara, Calif., and was inadvertently repeated in the Mason obituary on June 27, 2007. ” It all goes to the mindset of today's *quote* journalists *quote*

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