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...Better Living and Education presented Narconon a check for $200,000 and a study praising its work. The association turned out to be part of Scientology itself. Today the town is battling to keep out the cult, which has fought back through such tactics as sending private detectives to snoop on the mayor and the local newspaper publisher...
...Modrow would have been hailed as a Communist reformer of the first rank. As party leader in Dresden from 1973 to 1989, Modrow was no favorite of Erich Honecker's and his now discredited Politburo. Last June economist Gunter Hager sent a commission of 100 party hacks to snoop into the Dresden operation in hopes of finding a reason to drive Modrow out of the Central Committee. What they found was an incorrupt politician who worked hard, lived modestly and jogged six miles every day. "The Old Guard hated him because he was so unlike them," said Reiner Oschmann, deputy...
Individuals' papers and effects today can be scattered far beyond their physical persons and homes. The U.S. Government alone maintains some 3 billion personal computer files, a treasure trove through which an army of bureaucrats can search and snoop. Even more extensive are the records maintained by local governments, private credit agencies, banks, insurance companies, schools and hospitals. It is hard to live in modern society without leaving a long, broad electronic trail. Computers record where you reside and work, how much money you make, the names of your children, your medical and psychiatric history, your creditworthiness and indebtedness, your...
...great many mysteries feature journalists, largely because a great many mystery writers got their literary start at newspapers. Few have chronicled the freewheeling snoop as extensively, or as comically, as Gregory Mcdonald, Edgar winner and former arts and humanities editor of the Boston Globe, in his series about the impertinent Fletch, a man who breaks all the conventions. Fletch is young and handsome, not paunchy and timeworn; he is ethically shady and quick to grab a buck, not a tattered idealist clinging to principle; he is snippy not only to those in authority but also to working people...
Florida's Republican Senator Paula Hawkins accuses Democratic Rival Bob Graham of accepting support from the Young Communist League. In Wisconsin, Democratic Challenger Ed Garvey was accused of hiring a private eye to snoop into Republican Senator Robert Kasten's affairs. Maryland Republican Linda Chavez, a mother of three, derides her opponent, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, who has never married, as "antimale" and a "San Francisco-style" liberal...