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Recent disclosures of Iranian efforts to make clandestine purchases of American weaponry and spare parts demonstrate that Iran's condemnation of the U.S. does not prevent it from coveting American technology. These covert attempts to secure what Iran's bellicose anti-Western policies prevent it from obtaining openly suggest one of the Islamic Republic's long-term weaknesses. Unlike the Shah, who tried to open up Iran to the West and turn it into an industrial power, Khomeini has turned the country back on itself. Science and technology are neither condemned nor encouraged. Admissions to the University of Tehran...
...generally agree that journalists should not be forced to identify their confidential sources. In this case, however, it is alleged that a crime has been committed: disclosure of the name of a CIA covert operative. If that is true, those who received the illegally leaked information are at least accessories to the crime. It is a person's civic duty to report a crime, and that duty overrides journalistic privilege. To withhold a source's identity is an abdication of civic responsibility. George Morlan Acworth, Georgia...
...They would use gun-mounted lasers and infrared devices to blind the plant's cameras, and electronic jammers to paralyze communications among its defenders. They would probably be armed with precious information--hand-drawn maps, drawings of control panels, weak spots in the site's defenses--provided by a covert comrade working inside the plant...
...generally agree that journalists should not be forced to identify their confidential sources. In this case, however, it is alleged that a crime has been committed: disclosure of the name of a CIA covert operative. If that is true, those who received the illegally leaked information are accessories to the crime. It is a person's civic duty to report a crime, and that duty overrides journalistic privilege. To withhold a source's identity is an abdication of civic responsibility...
...Eirinaios camp. Israel's Cabinet refused for almost three years to ratify the election because of accusations that Eirinaios wrote an anti-Semitic letter to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Eirinaios says the letter was a forgery. In March, an Israeli court ruled that Eirinaios was elected with covert aid from a shady Greek intelligence informant arrested in April on charges of drug trafficking. The current uproar began in March when an Israeli newspaper claimed the Patriarchate had leased properties in Omar Ibn al-Khattab Square, just inside the Old City's Jaffa Gate, to Jewish investors. That inflames...