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...shred each year what was probably the touchiest record of all. Thus, when he retired last year, he left behind in his safe a list of apparently illegal burglaries conducted by FBI agents in New York and other cities since 1971 in a desperate attempt to uncover information about Weatherman bombings and the fugitive bomb throwers. The list moved through FBI channels to the Justice Department and exploded last week like a bombshell...
Full Security. TIME has learned that a typical operation began with a phone call to a high FBI official in Washington from a field supervisor who believed that clues to the whereabouts of a Weatherman fugitive might be found in a New York apartment. With Malone's go-ahead, the supervisor then wrote to one of the bureau's assistant directors in Washington for approval of an investigation employing an "unorthodox" or "unusual" technique and promising "full security." Attached to the request was a detailed explanation of what was meant by full security. Recalled an FBI official...
...ways that trivialize the news and diminish the raw impact of the filmed dead on a Beirut street. This is news as spectator sport. Confident young women or quippy males in tweed jackets review plays, films and concerts they are ill-equipped to judge. Joshing between anchor man and weatherman makes it hard to remember tomorrow's forecast. The fear of boring the viewer makes the discussion of city budgets and school boards incomprehensible-as they may well have been to the "reporter" himself...
...other side of the ring, Carl Weatherman is splendidly self-confident as the black Apollo who is seen first through his proper medium, the T.V. And Thayer David flashes the false smile of a true promoter, his waxy face cracking as he realizes that Rocky has taken the fight to heart...
Originally known as Weatherman, the all-white group changed its name partly because it is now made up almost entirely of women...