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This dark dossier of threats against the First Amendment by which a newspaper lives and the republic survives is the most significant trend I can find in journalism today...
DiCara's mind--his chief political asset--works quickly to generate a congenial atmosphere in any meeting. One can almost hear the clicking as his mind makes up a new dossier on an acquaintance or hunts for an old one amid stacks of past encounters. Friends of DiCara claim that his mental vault holds the names, addresses and occupations of at least 7000 to 8000 people in the Boston area. "People tell me I know a lot of people," DiCara says. "I suppose it's one of those traits of personality that I know so many people...
...organization of the hard-sell U.S. organization as well as on U.J.A. techniques for fund raising and the uses to which its gifts are put. Stone told as much as he knew, but that was not enough. At one point, Stone said later, his Egyptian interrogator pulled a dossier on the U.J.A. but of a desk drawer and demanded petulantly: "O.K. Let's go through this again, and get it right this time." The Egyptians also inquired about the mood of Israel, but the prisoners had difficulty describing it. They had arrived there only 24 hours earlier, many...
...regimes of Eastern Europe than with solving the problems of Western Europe. A Pompidou aide muses: "The EEC is confining for Germany. What would be the German reaction in five years if the Soviets offered them reunification?" The French answer their own question. The Germans "would pack up their dossier and return to Bonn," drop out of the Common Market and become a "neutral" as the price for getting back East Germany...
Hunt was reportedly building a dossier under the supervision of former White House aide Charles W. Colson to embarass Senator Edward M. Kennedy '56 (D-Mass.), then considered the leading Democratic presidential candidate by the White House...