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A) I wasn't being particularly facetious. I think if the issue comes up ten years later all the hed need do is point out that there was something new.

2) I think your wording, even in the context of the original time frame, still mistates the issue. It wasn't his request that delayed the report, his request was that he be allowed to delay the report.

Personally I would go with Starr Asks to Delay Report for the contemporaneous hed, if that passes muster with those who know the carved-in-stone rules of hed writing and my New Findings Re Starr Report for the present-day revisiting, remembering that we have space restrictions to consider in any of these.