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...legal maximum 54-ft. width. The Administration looked to the Supreme Court to get around that legal scruple, but last week the court refused to review a lower-court decision upholding the law. Now the pipeline proposal will be bucked to Congress, where it may create as big a furor...
...current furor in Italy derives from a complaint by a Roman journalist last fall that his telephone was being tapped. A crusading investigator named Luciano Infelisi, 33, who works for the Rome Magistrature as a sort of district attorney, decided to check further. With two aides, he equipped an unmarked van with a pair of antennas and it toured the center of Rome, trying to pick up the signals of transmitters hidden in phones or cables. Eventually the investigators concluded that hundreds of lines were being tapped, including those of the Bank of Italy, the Communist Party, various newspapers...
Just as the Watergate and ITT scandals have marred the Administration's credibility, the furor over the future of public TV has raised several perplexing questions. Are the CPB directives a concerted effort by the Administration to manipulate public affairs broadcasting to its own norms? Is there a master plan or are there several individuals who are separately attempting to extrapolate policy...
...furor began when the New York Times, advancing further in its holy war against the Met, charged that the vase was booty dug up by grave robbers at an Etruscan site north of Rome in 1971 and illegally sold to an expatriate American named Robert E. Hecht Jr. He in turn, so the story went, smuggled the vase out of Italy and sold it to the Met. In 1970 UNESCO adopted a draft prohibiting illicit traffic in art objects. The calyx krater would come under that provision, and both the U.S. and Italy have signed the pact...
Producer Gilbert vehemently denies this, and he has been so shaken by the furor over the show that last week he went back into psychoanalysis. "It is understandable that the family is confused and hurt," he says, "but it comes partly as the inevitable result of other people seeing them differently than they see themselves. Like all of us, they should be proud of their lives and take responsibility for the good and the bad. They did what they did. There's nothing to be ashamed of." Unlike many of the TV critics who have written about the show...