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...Israelis agreed to allow Jody Powell to serve as the sole official outlet of information #151;surely one of the toughest assignments ever handed a White House press secretary. In his daily meetings with reporters inside the American Legion post at Thurmont, Md., six miles from Camp David, Powell kept his statements concise and skillfully avoided conveying anything substantive. He deflected questions about concessions on the part of Israel or Egypt by noting diplomatically: "There's been flexibility shown on both sides." To ensure that this modest observation did not unduly raise hopes for a successful outcome, he added that...
Congress in 1975 gave Americans the right to find out what information is kept on them in Government files. However laudable the law's purpose, some of the Freedom of Information Act's most avid users have turned out to be criminals. Last month Convicted Felon Gary Bowdach told a Senate subcommittee that he had filed "scores" of FOI requests with the FBI for himself and fellow inmates at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta "to try to identify informants." Why? "To eradicate them," Bowdach replied...
...least seven times in the past two months, a thief has broken into the district attorney's office in Sequoyah County, Okla., sniffed out the marijuana cache kept in plastic evidence bags, and made off with some of the weed. The intruder has never been seen, but police think they have a pretty accurate description: stands 3 in. tall, weighs about an ounce, has slick brown hair, beady little eyes and a long tail, is prone to staggering, even on four feet...
Even as controversy raged over how many died the week before in protests (the official figure is 98, but there is a widespread belief that at least several hundred were killed, and some claim as many as 2,000), families of the victims gathered at gravesides, where soldiers kept watch. After the services, the mourners dispersed in small groups of three, as ordered. "They can pray, they can bury, but they can't demonstrate," said a colonel...
...group of international lawyers that his people were more concerned about food than freedom anyway. "The bottom line of that argument," observes New York University Law School Professor Thomas Franck, "is that the suspension of political rights is a way to increase economic rights." So far, martial law has kept Marcos in power and accomplished not a great deal more. "The trouble with martial law," laments a Filipino dissident who originally supported Marcos, "is that there is no recourse...