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...late in coming, but election-year madness has finally gripped New Hampshire. Candidates accost voters on frigid streets, knots of campaign workers wave placards in shopping malls, and a blizzard of campaign commercials blankets prime-time airwaves. But the familiar trappings disguise even more volatility than usual as the nation's first primary moves to its climax. Though Bill Clinton is the media-anointed front runner, easily two- thirds of the likely Democratic voters are in flux, and the fortunes of his four main rivals have been fluctuating erratically...
Police said that the men began following the victim at the teller machine, but waited until he had entered the darker and less busy Law School to accost...
...thing, authorities did not necessarily have to remove Kent-Brown from the auditorium as if he were in physical danger. The protesters did not touch or other wise physically accost him. He could have continued his oration with the protest in progress and exited at its conclusion. In another possible scenario, Police could have allowed Kent-Brown to return to the podium after a brief period of administrative action within the auditorium. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps might have negotiated with protesters; police might have removed them from the exists and escorted them out of the Science Center...
Outside the park it is a carnival, a medieval fair. People mill about, shouting for people they must meet, hawkers scream prices for tickets and vendors accost passersby trying to sell buttons and hats, mock helmets and pennants, bumper stickers and plaques which proclaim. "WE LOVE NEW YORK TOO, IT'S THE YANKEES WE HATE." The crowd presses toward the stadium...
...frisks him. But doesn't the Fourth Amendment specifically bar "unreasonable searches and seizures?" It does indeed, said the Supreme Court last week, but the operative word is "unreasonable." Speaking for an 8-to-1 majority, Chief Justice Warren held that the Constitution permits a policeman to accost an individual if there is good reason to suspect that he is up to no good, and to search him for weapons if there is good reason to suspect that he may be armed...