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Foreign Enemy. Even if the investigations unearth nothing else, the Democrats already seem to have considerable political ammunition. At week's end McGovern squeezed off a few rhetorical rounds of his own. "What first looked like a caper now appears to be a central part of the Republican strategy," he said. "It now appears that the headquarters of one of the two major political parties of the United States was treated as if it were the headquarters of a foreign enemy." What remained quite unclear was how much the scandal could help to narrow the huge Republican lead. Said...
Irving never really intended, he says, to keep the $750,000 that he extracted from his publishers. He and his collaborator Richard Suskind originally planned nothing more wicked than "a gorgeous literary caper." As the plot deepened, he saw it as "a venture into the unknown, a testing of myself." His wife Edith approved, he recalls, and so did his mistress Nina van Pallandt. "You're quite, quite mad," Nina said to Irving when he told her of the project in their Mexican hotel bedroom, "but the world is mad, so what's the bloody difference...
...They included G. Gordon Liddy, a former White House staffer and then attorney for the C.R.P.'s finance committee; Robert Mardian, a former assistant U.S. Attorney General and an official for the C.R.P., and E. Howard Hunt, a former White House consultant. The lead man in the Watergate caper was Bernard Barker, an ex-CIA agent. Federal investigators learned that $114,000 from the C.R.P. had found its way into Barker's Miami bank account...
...caper proved a prelude to another, even grimmer case of mistaken identity that provoked considerable public outrage...
With Dinah and Deliverance, Reynolds hardly needs any more boosts. But his Cosmopolitan caper has given him a taste for prankish self-promotion. This fall he will appear on the cover of Esquire-in the raw again, but cropped above the waist. Burt will be looking down at himself, his mouth agape with disbelief. A headline asks: THE IMPOTENCE BOOM...