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...called sleepers, or undercover agents. Unfortunately, the first one was uncovered, and he revealed everything he knew. This was a major setback. After the German Democratic Republic opened its embassies in Washington and at the United Nations, we established contacts, but most of the material we managed to obtain by these sources was legal or semilegal. It was not top-secret information. If you are wondering whether we had contacts on a very high level -- no, there was no American Senator or higher official on our payroll...
...revolution in Germany in 1918, society could only be changed if a communist ideology were adopted. I believe that mankind's striving for justice and freedom led to the creation of the communist ideology. I reject what always has been a central issue in communism: power, the struggle to obtain it and to keep it. I believe that this is one of the main reasons for the failure of the communist system...
Southern Mutual was the first to document the number of farmworkers in Louisiana. It fought for their legal rights and helped them obtain more than $1.25 million in back pay. It established the first farmworkers' medical and dental clinics, gathered oral histories of life on the plantation, founded an adult-literacy program, set up a scholarship fund for the children, documented the use of pesticides and is currently fighting against the spraying of certain chemicals. "Four Corners' new motto is 'From can't to can,' " says Bourg. "From can't do to can do." Sutton now proudly shows...
...also diminishes the privacy of callers. Some businesses use a commercial version of Caller I.D. that quietly displays the phone number of people who inquire about products, investments or insurance. The numbers can then be used to obtain other information about individual customers from consumer data bases. Privacy activists are also worried that the prospect of having phone numbers revealed will discourage anonymous police tipsters and callers to telephone hot lines that serve drug abusers, runaways and other people in trouble. Says Janlori Goldman of the A.C.L.U.: "The danger of Caller I.D. is that people lose control over when...
Except for 1 billion rubles discovered at a Soviet bank in September, the multiple inquiries have so far yielded little in the way of recovered cash. Foreign governments have refused to freeze Soviet assets, and Swiss banks decline to help unless investigators can obtain account numbers and the permission of their holders -- both unlikely developments. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is struggling under the weight of a 76.5 billion-ruble budget deficit, a foreign debt of some $70 billion and a looming winter food crisis -- misery that could have been eased had the party of the people only lived...