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...circle. Within the past five years, moreover, it has been disclosed that a number of the FBI's 8,400 agents have been involved in illegal entries and mail opening. One agent, John Kearney, was indicted last April in New York for illegal surveillance of the radical underground Weatherman group, and Bell has yet to decide whether there will be further indictments pending a report from a ten-man Justice Department team on past FBI malpractices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Again, the FBI Gets Its Man | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

Marc Perry, 29, formerly a top prelaw student at the University of Washington. He was arrested for aggravated assault at a Weatherman rally in Chicago in 1969 and has been on the lam ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Infiltrating the Underground | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Psychological explanations are as satisfactory, or unsatisfactory, as any others. It is possible that at least some of the terrorists are simply psychotics. It may be true that, as I.F. Stone wrote about the Weatherman radicals in the U.S., "the ultimate menace they fear is their own secret selves in their own parents. This is what they are acting out on the stage of national politics." The parents, in West Germany's case, carry the whole burden of the moral ambiguity in the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) that rebuilt the country after 1945. Some thing in the very robustness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Terrorism: Why West Germany? | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...Restic survives today on the winning side, the rest of the season could very well prove a nice little present, the weatherman notwithstanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's That Time of Year Again | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

This was not Harvard-Boston University in '75, when one missed defensive assignment resulted in a 13-9 Terrier triumph. It was not Harvard-Cornell a year ago when fault lay with the weatherman. No, this was worse, much, much worse...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Back to the Drawing Board: UMass 17, Harvard 0 | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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