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> In Italy 25 private detectives and telephone company employees have been arrested so far in a widening scandal involving the tapping of perhaps 1,000 telephone lines in Rome, including those of politicians, businessmen and call girls.
Executive privilege expanded in the cold war. Widening areas of federal activity were removed from congressional -or public-scrutiny. Foreign and defense policies were often deemed too sensitive to be disclosed. Congress, meanwhile, made a miserable case for the right to know. Led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, it hounded the...
On the train that morning he had tried to read the new, compact, modern Mail-Express-Mirror, edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, but had soon turned to his customary European Times. The headlines, on this sunny day in 1984, were depressingly familiar. Europe's trade gap was still...
Brezhnev stopped just short of reading the Chinese Communist party out of the Communist movement. But the widening gulf between Communism's two giants was never more evident than in Brezhnev's pointed reference to a nonaggression pact offered Peking by Moscow in 1971. The offer, said Brezhnev...
Another dimension of that orientation is sketched by Religion Scholar Jacob Needleman, author of The New Religions and, like Thompson, a cartographer of the revival of mysticism. Men lost a certain humility, Needleman says, when they abandoned the medieval idea of geocentrism-the belief that the earth is surrounded by...