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There are some people more worried about whether the FBI tried to entrap Congressmen than whether Congressmen were susceptible to bribery. Certainly a lot of reputations have been blackened before charges have been presented to a grand jury. Look at NBC's television cameras set up in a Winnebago van near Senator Harrison Williams' door before the FBI even comes to call on him. Who leaked the word to NBC, the New York Times and Long Island's Newsday, and why? A special federal prosecutor has been named to find out, but evidently he is not going...
...been dogging the story for two months-setting up two Winnebago vans near the FBI's W Street hideaway, photographing visitors through tinted windows. The crews could not turn heaters on in their vans be cause that would fog up the windows. "It was so cold the orange juice froze on a couple of nights," said one benumbed NBC reporter...
...wilderness, for most Americans, is more a fable than a perceived reality. Ecologists and preservationists have made it a moral fable, an emblematic subject drenched in quasi-religious conviction. But this does not make it any less fabulous. The family in the Winnebago, lurching toward Yosemite to be reborn, cannot experience what in the 19th century used to be called the "Great Church of Nature" as it is seen in Adams' photographs: the experience has become culturally impossible. That has also worked to Adams' advantage. By now, his photographs of lakes, boulders, aspens and beetling crags have come to look...
...Winnebago lurking on the shore of Chesapeake Bay one recent weekend looked like any other mobile camper, but with the radio scanner and communication equipment inside, it resembled a war room in the Pentagon. As a command post for the onshore operations of a marijuana-smuggling confederacy, it had been monitoring the area's police for a week, preparing for a mother ship's arrival in nearby waters. The camper was in contact with small trucks and vans waiting along the coast for the merchandise. As the ship reached the southern tip of Assateague Island, five miles off Virginia...
...minutes, tried to walk on, stopped, sat some more, walked another hundred yards or so, lay down on a rock, watched a middle aged fat man and his kids, all undoubtedly newly-arrived from Iowa in their shiny, sleep Winnebago, pass me by, bummed a beer from some longhairs heading down, slept and dreamt pleasant dreams about heat exhaustion and dying in canyons and the human equivalent of being slowly cooked in a Crock Pot. The last mile took as long as the first four had, and two ten-year old girls passed me on the way but I didn...