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...dogmatic style. Its founder and publisher, Rudolf Augstein, 59, stridently argues that U.S. and West German interests inevitably are in conflict, particularly on the reunification of Germany. The weekly is by West German standards an enterprising investigative publication, and its ideology has not kept it from publishing stories that embarrass the Social Democrats. Last year Spiegel exposed payoffs to politicians, including SPD leaders, in exchange for tax breaks for the giant Flick conglomerate. More important, Spiegel has no real competitor in the country as a newsmagazine, and therefore is a favored recipient of political leaks. Spiegel is must reading...
...attack at the Islamic College, the Israeli authorities could not be sure the attackers were Jewish. They said that they would also investigate other possibilities-equally without proof: the masked gunmen were Muslim fundamentalists or members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who might have attacked the college to embarrass Israel and exacerbate Arab-Jewish tensions. Prime Minister Menachem Begin termed the attack a "loathsome crime." Brigadier General Benyamin Ben-Eliezer, coordinator of Israeli operations in the occupied territories, declared, "We will spare no effort and do whatever has to be done in order to find the murderers...
Life's Most Embarrassing Moments (ABC), featuring John Ritter of Three's Company as host, was the No. 1-rated show in the last week of April. Notwithstanding its title, the show was not about Life's most embarrassing moments but television's. It took its place in a long television tradition of ritual humiliation: programs that deliberately embarrass their victims to the mingled amusement and relief of the audience. Shows like Candid Camera tried to catch unwitting people in mortifying circumstances, while The Newlywed Game prodded one spouse to air the other's dirty...
Publicly, State Department officials stayed mum on the leak and tried to shift attention back to American support for the Pakistani-led efforts to negotiate a political settlement for Afghanistan. Privately, however, they were furious. They were worried that the revelation would embarrass the Pakistanis into cracking down on the arms shipments. "Successful covert actions must be kept quiet," snapped one official. "That's why they're covert." Some State Department hands speculated that the leak was designed to highlight the Administration's involvement in a popular cause like Afghanistan, where the Soviet threat is unambiguous...
...action. The Defense Department, which knew of the plan, warned against it, and the unsanctioned commando raid turned up no Americans and no fresh information. Last week, however, the eagerness of Gritz's colleagues to tell their stories to Soldier of Fortune magazine, among others, did serve to embarrass their improbable group of backers and suppliers, who, it turns out, included Actors Clint Eastwood, 52, and William Shatner, 51, as well as the California-based Litton Industries. Eastwood is mum on his reasons for donating a reported $30,000, while Shatner claims that his $10,000 was paid solely...