It might well have happened in Hitler's Germany. Armed with arrogance, pistols and arrest warrants, special security police swooped down at night on the Bonn bureau of Der Spiegel (The Mirror), a weekly newsmagazine, and summarily carted staffers off to jail. In Der Spiegel's Hamburg headquarters, other police sealed off rooms, ransacked them with a thoroughness that included upturning the wastebaskets. In Torremolinos, Spain, about 1,300 miles away, local police, acting on an urgent request from West German authorities, routed a vacationing Spiegel subeditor and his wife from bed and locked them...
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