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Article: An earful in Cincinnati: eavesdropping left and right.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- April 17, 1989
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It is old news that Cincinnati is conservative. It is the town that raided Oh! Calcutta and took the local cable television company to task for carrying the Playboy channel. It is the home of Dr. Jack Willke, a national leader of the Right to Life movement, and the former home of Charles Keating, multimillionaire anti-porn crusader. Cincinnati is not a place where government eavesdropping would ordinarily cause much of a ripple. But even some of the city's more hidebound burghers have been expressing a certain dismay over unfolding disclosures that 1,500 or so of their fellow citizens have had their telephones tapped in recent years. That Myron Leistler, the city's ...