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...been hired by two members of the White House staff to subvert the Democratic election campaign. In March, 1973, a story in TIME revealed that Presidential Counsel Charles Colson was listed in White House records as Hunt's supervisor, and that Hunt's pay vouchers for the "caper" had been signed in Colson's office...
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY is a cache of fleeting pleasures collected by Claude Lelouch, who always seems to make films (A Man and a Woman) with the same airy cheer, as if he were mailing out greeting cards. The plot is a congenial sort of caper about a gang of aging delinquents (Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione) who hire themselves out for all kinds of elaborate political thuggery. Since ideology cannot be stashed in a numbered Swiss account, it plays no part in their addled schemes, which include kidnaping a Swiss diplomat and hijacking...
...never been on the government's list of 'subversive' organizations, so the supposed rationale for spying on it is not present. The chilling effect of domestic government surveillance, now prominent with the unravelling revelations in the Watergate 'caper,' hardly needs documentation. FBI interference in Harvard's affairs, confirmed in the case of Dean Whitlock's secretary, may pale into insignificance beside electronic eavesdropping in presidential campaigns, but it is no less excusable...
Topkapi. (1964). Merlina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov in a captivating caper about the theft of a gem-crusted dagger from an Istanbul museum. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color...
Since the bizarre theft occurred only two weeks before France's parliamentary elections, the caper had distinct political overtones. If Pétain's body were to be found before the elections, there would be considerable public clamor to bury it in the national military cemetery at Douaumont near Verdun; in 1971 a public-opinion poll, taken for the Bordeaux newspaper Sud-Ouest, showed that 72% of the French people favored such a move. The "nou-velle affaire Pétain," as the French were calling the caper, revived old political quarrels over the sensitive issue of national...