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...first, the issue of selective prosecution appeared paramount. Earlier this year, when Idaho Congressman George Hansen updated his book about the IRS' abuse of power. To Harass Our People, he included a chapter summing up the Moon case. Hansen wrote that "From the beginning, it was evident that the government was relying for its case on the most damning facts possible-the unpopularity of the Moon church and the fact that Reverend Moon is an Oriental...
...Cohen was in the minority this week. The Soviets constantly harass the 30-odd American correspondents in Russia, bugging their guarded compounds and occasionally trying to set them up in compromising circumstances with a photographer nearby. The Soviets limit the number of correspondents who speak Russian, and they enforce quirky rules (no photos of bridges, ports, railway junctions, men in uniform, police stations or military installations are allowed...
...Investment Review Agency and the National Energy Program. As a result of these gestures, Canada has lost that very valuable infusion of job-creating capital we need. Now add to that what has always struck me as a dismayingly perverse dimension of Liberal policy, which was to hector and harass our friends and allies, including the U.S. My position is always that we should give our friends the benefit of a doubt. I think a lot of people in the U.S. are concerned about some of the things that Canada has been up to, and they have responded in kind...
...seriously injured, but it was not the first such incident this year. In April, an unidentified youth attacked a U.S. consular officer on the street. Administration officials said last week that they were becoming annoyed at the "disturbing pattern of official involvement in a campaign to harass and isolate Americans in the Soviet Union...
...shows crowd the air, four in English, two in Spanish. Soon after Berg's death, Tom Leykis of WNWS told his listeners the real name of a popular, less vitriolic competitor who works at a rival station under the pseudonym Neil Rogers, and urged them to call and harass him. "Rogers," who received death threats in 1980 for his opposition to the arrival of the Cuban boat people, believes that Leykis was enabling listeners to attack him "a la Alan Berg." Leykis' station made an apology...