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Ehrlichman's safe, according to the Washington Post, also contained cop ies of hospital records of Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton's treatment for mental illness. The Post reported that the papers had been there before Eagleton's shock treatments were publicly reported, leading to his withdrawal as George McGovern's vice-presidential running mate. Did the White House do anything to plant the first stories? It seems unlikely, but it is typical of the climate created by Watergate that the question was being raised last week...
...Chicago, ex-Cop Eddie Bray, who heads a private detective agency called American Security Agents, Inc., reports that there has been a 100% increase in one lucrative phase of his operations -"debugging," the detection of hidden devices used to eavesdrop. In New York, John Meyner, president of Sonic Devices, Inc., which also peddles "bug"-finding skills, says he cannot drive through downtown Manhattan without picking up a flood of illegal eavesdropping signals on his sensitive detectors. Just four blocks from the White House, an electronics store named the Spy Shop is doing a thriving business selling both eavesdropping and debugging...
...their heads, their next mayor will be, no matter who wins next week's election, an incompetent, a liar, an as sociate of criminals and a betrayer of the public trust. After a series of "debates" between incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty, 63, and black City Councilman and Ex-Cop Thomas Bradley, 55, the Los Angeles Times complained in disgust: "Slashing personal attacks apparently win votes. Well, that is what passes for politics in Los Angeles...
COOLING THE MARK OUT. Mollifying a mark who has lost heavily in a rigged game by throwing him a cop-letting him win a consolation prize...
...ended. It is the year of the cop. On TV, at the movies and especially in books, the men in blue are being returned to their once traditional position-just above firemen and below returning war heroes...