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...neighboring countries, Afghanistan is bracing for a duel to the death between Najibullah's shaky regime and the U.S.-backed mujahedin rebels. No one knows whether the Soviets will mount cross-border air raids to thwart the rebels' designs, or if Washington intends to keep open its not-so-covert arms pipeline through Pakistan to the rebels. But even if the superpowers bow out entirely, both sides in the Afghan conflict have enough stockpiled arms to keep the conflagration raging for months. "No one is operating under any illusions," warns a U.S. specialist on Afghanistan. "The situation is going...
...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...