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Newspaper office computers are frequent targets for prying. One reason: news organizations make extensive use of open telephone lines to transmit and receive electronic messages. In addition, notes Geoffrey Stokes, press columnist for New York City's Village Voice, "We are all professional snoops." Stokes' columns frequently contain items leaked to him from the computers of the large New York dailies. Last year he gleefully printed a memo purloined from the New York Times revealing that Arthur Gelb, one of that paper's top editors, asked a Paris reporter to investigate the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident on Russian...
American Jewish leaders felt doubly betrayed, because Israel spied so aggressively -- and successfully -- against the U.S. and because it exploited a dedicated, if flawed, American Zionist to do its dirty work. "What chutzpah," wrote New York Times Columnist William Safire, "to expect the U.S. . . . to forgive and forget the corrupting of American citizens that led to a raid on our National Security Agency by a foreign power." Continued Safire: "American supporters of Israel cannot support wrongdoing here or there. In matters of religion and culture, many of those supporters are American Jews, but in matters affecting national interest and ultimate...
...most vitriolic attack came from New York Times Columnist William Safire. He wrote of Mrs. Reagan's "extraordinary vindictiveness" in dumping Regan and called her an "incipient Edith Wilson," referring to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's control of the White House after her husband was incapacitated by a stroke in 1919. Nancy Reagan, rasped Safire, is "unelected and unaccountable, presuming to control the actions and appointments of the Executive Branch...
...Tower report. Reagan was so irked at the Dragon Lady image that he broke his rule of silence during a photo session to denounce the Nancy stories as "despicable fiction" by people who "should be ashamed of themselves." Friends rushed to the First Lady's defense. "Rubbish," said Columnist George Will of the flood of press accounts. The First Lady shrugged off the accusations as "ridiculous." Indeed, while she is by no means bashful about offering advice to her husband, the evidence indicates that she is not quite so all-powerful as the Regan affair suggested. The President resisted sacking...
...affair involves complex financial transactions that are little understood by the general public, the scandal could sting the Tories, who are running neck and neck with the Labor Party in opinion polls. "Watergate was amazingly complex, and people didn't follow the minute details," says Peter Kellner, political columnist for the liberal New Statesman magazine. "But there came a time when it wasn't the detail that mattered, but the general stink...