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While civil libertarians assail the invasion of privacy by federal agents and local cops who tap private telephones, it seems the snooping business is not a government monopoly. In this electronic age, the feds, too, can be kept under surveillance. Lawyers for Joseph A. Colombo Sr. proved that with rare candor last week. They called Justice Department officials in New York City to arrange for the surrender of the reputed underworld chieftain (TIME, April 5) on a charge of running a $5-million-a-year gambling operation-before the warrant for his arrest had been issued. How did Colombo...
...York Assistant District Attorney John Fine alleges that although Colombo reports earning an annual salary of $7,000 to $23,000 from his Brooklyn real estate firm, his spending habits cost between $80,000 and $100,000 each year. At the dinner, a sympathetic guest commented on Mrs. Colombo's wardrobe: "Poor Jojo. She's not allowed to buy any clothes. Because they always check his income tax, she has to go around in rags...
...strategy got a cold eye from Christian Democratic Premier Emilio Colombo, who has pledged that Communists will never enter his government despite the fact that the party attracts 27% of the Italian vote...
Through what now appears to have been a deliberate government leak, the pro-Communist newspaper Paese Sera two weeks ago learned of the Dec. 8 farce. PLOT BY THE EXTREME RIGHT, headlined the daily. But Colombo's government rather than the Communists emerged as the spearhead of anti-Fascist vigilance. That was the feeling after warrants were issued last week for the arrest of Prince Borghese and five aides for seeking "to provoke an armed insurrection...
...member cardinals off to the German bishops, who questioned Kung, then issued a tepid public reproach several weeks ago. Kűng boasted that they had skirted condemnation, leaving the way open to further debate. In Italy, Pope Paul's most intimate theological adviser, Bishop Carlo Colombo of Milan, helped write a statement for the Italian hierarchy declaring that it is impossible to support or spread Kűng's views "without separating oneself from the full communion of the church." More startlingly, Kűng's old friend and mentor, Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner, doubted that...