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Privacy of Public Officials The newspapers have made me a prude. I can't get away with a thing. Listen, if I wanted to cut a caper with a promiscuous broad, I'd have to find one who was an Eskimo and meet in her igloo, and I'd probably have to wear a beard...
Though Wallraff's lean, ascetic face has appeared on each of his six books and many magazine pieces, he undertakes no mysterious disguises. All he usually does is get a haircut, suitable clothes and new frames for his glasses. For the Bild Zeitung caper, he also shaved off his mustache, adopted the name of Hans Esser and passed a pre-employment writing test at the paper. Once hired, he had to turn out credibly trashy articles. He also had to socialize heavily with fellow reporters and pretend to share their views to prevent detection. His account of the experience...
Defending the Indefensible Lasky is shakiest in trying to rationalize Nixon's transgressions. He suggests that Nixon was hounded from office by a hostile press only because of the Watergate burglary -which Lasky still describes as a "third-rate" caper. He makes no mention at all of the White House payoffs to the convicted burglars to buy their silence. Lasky even finds the celebrated "smoking gun" tape (which caused Nixon's most devout Republican defenders on the House Judiciary Committee to recommend his impeachment) so garbled and murky as to be inconclusive. As Lasky sees it, if Nixon...
...struck again. This time the pie was apple crumb and the victim was New York City Mayor Abe Beame, who was participating in a mayoral forum at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Fortunately for Beame, the pie merely splattered his blue suit. The mayor shrugged off the caper with a quip: "I like the Big Apple, not apple...
...reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert; an overt purchase might have pushed the Soviet Union into supplying nuclear arms to the Arab states. The Scheersberg A, which is still in service as a tramp steamer under the name Kerkyra, was secretly owned at the time of the uranium caper by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. It was one of three ships (another was called the Vita) that Israel used in the late 1960s for secret operations. TIME has discovered that the Scheersberg A was almost certainly involved in the refueling in the Atlantic of five gunboats seized by Israeli...