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In 1978 a federal district court judge in Virginia, Oren Lewis, granted an injunction barring Snepp from writing anything else about the CIA without clearance; Lewis also ordered Snepp to forfeit his "illgotten gains" from Decent Interval. Last year an appeals court was only slightly more sympathetic to Snepp'...
Despite echoing corridors and almost empty classrooms, School Board President Catherine Rohter ordered the schools to remain open; otherwise, the cash-poor system would have been billed for unemployment compensation. But pleas by board of education officials for parent volunteers to help with staffing were mostly unheeded. The few students...
What kind of prescription is this for political success? Director of the CIA when that agency's prestige had never been lower. Ambassador to the U.N. when that body, for the first time, refused to heed U.S. pleas that Taiwan be allowed to remain a member. Chairman of the...
That was too much for the Kremlin. Sakharov's earlier critiques of Soviet totalitarianism, and his impassioned pleas br political prisoners in the Gulag had long enraged the Soviet leaders. But they had been reluctant to arrest so famous a dissident for fear of jeopardizing the advantages of d...
It was no surprise that Beautiful-People Photographer Francesco Scavullo celebrated his 51st birthday at Manhattan's Studio 54, the tacky ex-TV studio that has been built into the Big Apple's most celebrated disco with the help of hype-hungry celebs. But why was his party...