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...Srouji. For more than a decade she had been acting as an FBI informer, receiving bureau leaks in return for information on black activists, student radicals, dissident groups and, possibly, her professional colleagues. Srouji thus became the first journalist to be identified as an FBI informant since the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recently disclosed that the bureau has for years been using reporters and editors in various collaborative roles. And she became the first journalist to be fired for such activity when Tennessean Publisher John Seigenthaler summarily dismissed...
...piano to one called "Tuesdays are always yellow, aren't they?" for harp and it's-anyone's-guess-what-else. Although Harvard does not have the most illustrious name as far as graduate music schools go the composition professors are outstanding and their students are a highly select and qualified crew...
...Following Morris' prescriptions and proscriptions, Butner will allow a prisoner to select from such programs as dental technician training; college, high school or literacy courses; and counseling for drug or alcohol abuse. He will be free to pass up all of them-and even to transfer to another prison after the first three months. Because the convict's release date cannot be affected by his choices, there is no incentive to "act" rehabilitated in order to win parole. His prison time will be extended, however, if an inmate is found guilty of a serious disciplinary offense...
...will continue to be, a closed and repressive totalitarian state. There is no evidence that the proposed facility will be founded on education principles any "higher" than those already observed in the state-dominated educational system. The presence of Edward L. Keenan Jr., professor of History, and a select minority of American educators on the governing board will make state meddling in the affairs of the school--which is bound to occur--all the more embarrassing...
...volume, 815-page report released last week by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was 15 months in the making. It documents as never before how the White House and the baronies of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency took the law into their own hands in the cause of preserving liberty. To cure the sweeping excesses, the eleven-member Church committee-so named for its chairman, Idaho Democrat Frank Church-proposed some sweeping reforms, 183 in all. Yet many of the key reforms may well be gutted or killed by the full Senate...