Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town is also the home of the Centerville Recreational Facility, a detention camp for classical musicians, who are described as a socially unproductive and financially worthless class of people (portrayed in the film by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). Surrounded by a high wooden fence that is topped with barbed wire and vigilantly patrolled by Nazi soldiers carrying rifles, the orchestra is forced to perform pop music (i.e., Zappa's score), since that is more lucrative...
...nominees had been sent to the A.B.A.'s judiciary committee. "I put in about 50 calls to courts and law schools all over the country," says Miss Totenberg. After five hours on the telephone, she had assembled the complete list and sent it out on the Dow Jones news wire. Oddly enough, she talked frequently with Rehnquist that day but got no intimation that he was under consideration. He did not know it himself...
...because he felt they were untrustworthy, showed up to demand money. Ratnoff made a quick check, since all sorts of people claiming to be cops were in the habit of trying to shake down Xaviera. He found that, sure enough, Phillips was a bona fide policeman. "Let's wire up on him," a commission member told Ratnoff. They had their...
...admits America has organized "counterespionage and counter-subversive operations." Powell forgot to point out we have done this with every enemy this country has had since 1776, but we didn't sacrifice our people's freedoms in the process. The one and only reason we do not allow indiscriminate wire-tapping without prior court approval is to protect possible damage to private citizens. Powell favors indiscriminate wire-tapping...
Angela Davis, the Berrigan Brothers, Black Panthers, Mayday arrests. William Kunstler, the Chicago Seven, Wire-tapping are all Supreme Court subjects for determination and clarification. An announced advisary to these people and to the principles for which they stand, should not be approved by the U.S. Senate to be seated on our Supreme Court. Many thousands of Americans are more qualified...