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...Manhattan firm of Nixon Mudge Rose Guthrie and Mitchell. A dour, pipe-puffing municipal-bond lawyer, Mitchell was also Nixon's closest political confidant. As Attorney General from 1969 until early 1972, he was the exemplar of the tough law-and-order man, who claimed the authority to tap the telephone of anyone whom he considered a security risk...
...alums are providing information in a lot of areas where we just don't have competence," he continued. "We're trying to tap a broader base of experience and gain firsthand knowledge in as many fields...
Fortunately, chorus ennui is no match for Cole Porter's music, the flashy tap dancing, and the extravagance of Chery1 Marynell's satin and slink costumes. Heaven knows -- everyone...
Italians are presumably no more vulnerable to bugging than are other Europeans. The French National Assembly passed a law forbidding all phone tapping three years ago, but, as Nouvel Observateur notes, "nothing has changed since the law was passed." The government goes right on bugging, with the help of some of the equipment that the Gestapo left behind in 1944. Not only do the authorities tap the phones of specific suspects, but there are permanent taps even on public phone booths in cafes near major ministerial offices. Tapping is limited, according to one expert, only by a "shortage of funds...
...Briton's endearing assumption that gentlemen do not tap each other's telephones is, naturally, the despair of merchants like Mr. X, who sells all sorts of bugging gadgets to overseas clients. "I find it horrifying," he says, "that we are in the Common Market with the Germans, the French and the Italians, who know all about this equipment and don't feel too many moral qualms about using it." There are probably no more than 20 British companies, he laments, that even bother to "sweep" their board rooms for bugs that have been planted by their...