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Burgess, who dined with British Cabinet ministers, concentrated on political intelligence; Maclean was an expert on the U.S. and British atomic-bomb programs. What secrets Blunt gave to the Soviets is unknown. He had no access to classified information after 1945, but he stayed in touch with Soviet intelligence...
...confessed and "subsequently provided useful information about Russian intelligence activities." The Queen's private secretary was informed that Blunt had been a Soviet spy, but Blunt was neither exposed nor required to resign as curator. Thatcher's explanation: the position was unpaid, "it carried with it no access to classified information and no risk to security, and the security authorities thought it desirable not to put at risk his cooperation...
...Forum editors' decision to distribute the text of the Wei trial spelled their downfall. After obtaining a tape recording of the 5½-hour proceedings, they first posted a transcript on democracy wall where it was read by thousands of people during the next three weeks. This limited access to the transcript was tolerated. But when it went on sale at 17? a copy the authorities evidently felt that they could not risk having it circulate throughout China. Wei, who had conducted his own defense at his trial, charged that China had scarcely changed since the ouster...
...Court's decision in Regents of the University of California vs. Allan Bakke, or the 1978 median income of U.S. families. Many of the retrieval systems are now available mainly to scholars and businesses. But Participant Nicholas Johnson, a former Federal Communications Commissioner, argued that libraries should spread access to this data among the citizenry. Manhattan Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. agreed: "A dramatic change in information dependency has taken place in our country, and the libraries are participants in that...
...support for a ten-point list of demands that gypsy leaders presented to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week. It asks, among other things, for an official acknowledgment of the Germans' responsibility for the gypsies' wartime persecution and an end to discrimination in jobs and housing, free access to campsites and a "reeducation program" for prejudiced police. Gypsy activists are also negotiating with the government for a reparations payment of $365 million that could be used to pay for educational and cultural programs benefiting all of Western Europe's gypsies...