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Widespread awareness of all this has itself contributed to the change. Psychologists report that 30 years ago the U.S. was in an "age of covert anxiety." It is now in an age of "overt anxiety." People tend to believe that it is wrong and "sick" to feel anxious or guilty; they are beset by guilt about guilt, by anxiety about anxiety...
Operating from a dingy two-story building near the American embassy in Accra, B.A.A. turns out pamphlets by the ton on an official budget of $26,000 a year, which is probably bolstered by another $200,000 in covert funds. Close by is the African...
...danger that Mobutu's regime might become a military dictatorship; they insist that the world organization cannot even indirectly support an undemocratic movement. Time after time, U.N. officials had refused to let Mobutu arrest Lumumba; now they were frustrating his efforts to put a halt to the covert activities of Lumumba's friends as well. When Mobutu's troops arrested 15 Lumumba supporters in a series of predawn raids and tried to deport most of them to faraway Kasai province, the U.N. quickly intervened and had them freed on the ground that arbitrary arrest should be discouraged...
...J.A.C. COVERT O'BRIEN
Religious organizations, from the Church of England Moral Welfare Council to the Roman Catholic St. Joan's Alliance, though alarmed at the number of whores on London streets (a spectacle unmatched in the U.S. or Europe), opposed the bill as likely to make prostitution more covert, and thus more professionally organized. Labor's cherubic Anthony Greenwood objected to the phrase "common prostitute" in the bill as violating the traditional presumption of innocence. Not for long did the debate stay on this legalistic level...