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...public had a right to see the film. Last Tuesday, Attorney General Sir Michael Havers announced that no one would be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for appearing in the 55-minute documentary. Even before the film was aired on Friday night, a report was hurriedly released by Lord Bridge, the senior judge in charge of checking on telephone and mail interference, exonerating the government as well as previous governments from charges that they had improperly authorized phone taps...
Critics quickly labeled Lord Bridge's report a whitewash. Noting that the report was commissioned and completed in only six days, the Daily Telegraph ridiculed it as "the bench's answer to fast food: a juridical...
...trade tariffs, on the future of the Australian wombat. Conferences are supposed to begin and end punctually, and then the delegates depart to make room for the next set of delegates. That is the system, and the motto on the Swiss 5-franc coin is "Dominus providebit" (The Lord will provide). This week the $100-a-day hotels are filling up with visitors to the world's biggest auto show, which is being held at the new Palexpo exhibition hall. Next week U.S. and Soviet diplomats arrive to resume arms-control talks. Such things are Geneva's biggest business...
...canton of Switzerland. By then it was just a peaceful backwater. Franz Liszt came here after eloping with the Countess d'Agoult, and he composed a piano piece inspired by the city's church bells. "Happy is he who can stay long by these shores," wrote another aristocratic visitor, Lord Byron...
...more exuberant by the recollection that the paper has repeatedly seemed likely to die. A money loser, the Times was shut down for a year in 1978 and 1979 by striking craft workers, who opposed the installation of modern technology. In October 1980, faced with mounting deficits, then Owner Lord Thomson said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor...