Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post demonstrations while in uniform. Underground newspapers, including The Last Harass, The Shakedown, Open Sights and Fun, Travel and Adventure (FTA) protest the war and "racism" in the armed forces. The papers, whose editors claim circulations of anywhere from 500 to 23,000, also give instructions on how to bug the brass. Open Sights urges soldiers interested in "freaking out the military dictatorship that runs the country" to name antiwar or peace organizations as beneficiaries of military insurance policies. Most list the names and addresses of antiwar groups and individuals willing to aid uniformed dissenters...
...that any of the surveillances did violate the Fourth Amendment." Eavesdropping that is necessary to national security may well be legal, he said, and lower court judges may be free to decide that issue in chambers, without the defendant's participation. Thus, Stewart intimates, public disclosure of a bug or a wiretap may not really be necessary for a prosecution unless the judge decides that it was illegal...
...Stewart, who generally gives greater weight to the claims of law enforcement than the other justices, was speaking solely for himself. And even he did not come out clearly for the inchamber proceeding. Thus the Government has no assurance that the court will hold that the issue of a bug's legality can be decided privately...
...Love Bug is the Walt Disney organization's whimsical tribute to the Volkswagen. The little thing gets a crush on a down-and-out racing driver (Dean Jones) and follows him home. Jones spurns the smitten vehicle until he discovers that it has a mind of its own. The bug, it seems, is just about the fastest thing on four wheels and is fairly dropping its transmission to give Jones a ride to fame and fortune. The glory road, however, is constantly being rerouted by a swishy villain (David Tomlinson), who is determined to seize the wondrous bug...
...outcome of all this is about as predictable as the benumbing succession of autopomorphic gags. Connoisseurs of camp may enjoy watching Tomlinson ranting at the Volkswagen, but The Love Bug is surely the first film in which the actors (Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett) are so meticulously insipid that a car can handily steal the show...