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This splitting of society has become so pervasive and perverse that some people are angry that they were not detained by the police. One famous actor who thinks that his politics are radical enough to warrant his confinement in an internment center goes out every night after the 11 p.m. curfew in the hope of being arrested. Thus far he has not been picked up, a fact that adds to his anger...
...tragedy clearly shows another Turk at Agca's elbow. Turkish authorities have identified the man as Omar Ay, a member of the neofascist National Action Party (N.A.P.), the group that aided Agca to escape from a Turkish jail and start on his trip to Rome. A warrant for Ay's arrest is outstanding in Ankara...
...traditional meaning of privacy, the right any thinking being has to solitude and the freedom of his own thoughts and ideas. This prerogative, essential for preserving a free society, becomes indefensible, however, when invoked to justify the sort of secrecy that society's efficient operation cannot warrant. Privacy statutes prohibiting, say, an employer's efforts to glean information about a job applicant, or a manufacturer's right to get his product to the preferable set of consumers, make little sense. Posner elaborates...
White House aides said it was the steady accumulation of details and incidents that gave credence to the hit-team reports. "No single informant's information is enough to warrant taking the reports too seriously," said an official. "But taken all together, the way one informant's information supports another's, you have to be convinced something is going on." U.S. intelligence officials, for example, started piecing some details together last September when they learned of an alleged Gaddafi plot to kill Maxwell Rabb, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Rabb was given special protection, and Rome police arrested a suspect. Meanwhile...
...Capitol Hill, a majority of Senators and Representatives were willing to believe that the hit-team threat exists. Some Congressmen, in fact, were ready to impose sanctions on Libya even before Reagan announced the travel restriction. "The situation is serious enough to warrant the level of precautions," said Republican Senator Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico, who was briefed by the CIA. "I don't think the Administration is making it up," said Democratic Representative Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee, who also had a CIA briefing. "There's ample evidence that this is a very real threat...