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...rude, accusatory and cynical. I have been accused of being unpatriotic, anti-Israeli, anti-Arab and anti-American. I meddle in politics, harass illegal businesses and cause other untold difficulties for governments. Some say I am arrogant and self-righteous. I am glad. That is what makes good reporters...
...clergyman thus became one of untold thousands of Americans who every year refuse to testify as witnesses in criminal trials for fear of retaliation by suspects or their associates. The cases of fearful witnesses that come to public attention usually involve mobsters or major drug dealers. But the problem of intimidation is much broader, encompassing countless burglaries, robberies, rapes and incidents of domestic violence that police never even hear about because victims and witnesses are afraid to report them. "These are not flashy cases," says John Stein, spokesman for the National Organization for Victim Assistance. "They are mundane, low-visibility...
...tout the heckling of the Secretary of Defense as an attack on the principle of free speech, as the majority has done it its editorial, seems more than a little bit strange. Secretary Weinberger has at his disposal untold millions of dollars that can go toward airing the point of view of the Reagan Administration. Weinberger also has a corps of reporters around him to relay his every thought to the front pages of newspapers, the covers of magazines and the major wire services. The Secretary, in short, has virtually unlimited access to all the major media, a "freedom...
...There's no question that individual advisors last individual students in individual cases," he said. "But for every one there are untold cases of students who could not be dissuaded from doing something by an advisor and blew...
...most sensitive machines-have focused attention on a serious question: How to safeguard information stored inside computers? The potential for fraud is awesome. The American banking system alone moves more than $400 billion between computers every day. Corporate data banks hold consumer records and business plans worth untold billions. Military computers contain secrets that, if stolen, could threaten U.S. security. Many of these machines are hooked into the telephone system, which enables them to communicate with other computers and with users in remote locations. But as the 414s have demonstrated, anyone with one of the popular new microcomputers...