Word: covert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extraordinary confession of veteran reporter A. Kent MacDougall. Writing in the Monthly Review, an obscure socialist magazine (circ. 7,000), MacDougall declares that during his 24-year career as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, he "helped popularize radical ideas" as a "usually covert, occasionally openly anti-Establishment reporter." A journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1987 (he is now on sabbatical), MacDougall, 57, says that only the security of tenure finally enabled him to reveal himself as a "closet socialist boring unobtrusively from within ((the)) bourgeois press." His epitaph: "Eugene...
...insistence that North be given great latitude in his use of evidence. Walsh's defeat became inevitable last month when Gesell laid down rules for handling the secret data contained in the 300 classified documents the special prosecutor had planned to use. The judge would permit excision of the covert sources and methods by which the data were obtained. However, the information itself had to be presented virtually verbatim at trial...
When the "disintegrating influence of money-mad athletics" was first hot, Judge Saul Streit condemned the University of Kentucky as "the acme of commercialism and overemphasis." That was in 1952, after hearings on Kentucky's role in college basketball's point-shaving scandal. Streit found "covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, illegal recruiting and the most flagrant abuse of the athletic scholarship." More than 30 years later, the bill of particulars has hardly changed...
...hunt for William Sloane Coffin's successor typifies the method by which most of America's 300,000 Protestant congregations, large and small, find spiritual leaders. Lay members serving on a search committee may spend a year in unpaid toil, scanning l00 dossiers, listening to sermon tapes and making covert scouting expeditions to hear preachers. At Riverside, 5,000 people were asked to submit names and 250 prospects were contacted...
...still misguided in its apparent unreadiness to regard Gorbachev's proposals as legitimate. While we agree that both sides should be cautious, as any government should be, we cannot support insinuations that would place American presidents morally above Soviet leaders. Recent White House scandals, the Iran-Contra affair and covert CIA actions suggest otherwise...