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...Chicago overruled a federal district court and found that video surveillance of four suspected members of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Says University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "Technology--bugs, beepers that police attach to cars, parabolic microphones--all of this enables the Government to invade privacy in ways far more extreme than one could possibly have imagined when the Fourth Amendment was written...
...this would probably raise nary an eyebrow were it not for the fact that it follows a wholly unremarked-upon--except through the column of William Safire--incident involving Deaver early on in the Administration. Deaver, it seems, contracted with a book publisher to attach his name to a diet book--a move that could eventually net him several hundred thousand dollars. Thus Deaver became, as Safire pointed out, the first White House official ever to exploit "his public position for substantial commercial gain while still in office...
Ever since a Soviet fighter plane shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in September 1983, there have been numerous theories about the events that led to the attack. One explanation appeared last June in the British magazine Defence Attaché. According to the anonymous author, the U.S. accidentally triggered the tragedy by using the airliner to gather intelligence about Soviet air defenses. The plane, the writer contended, intentionally flew over Soviet territory in order to test the country's reflexes as the space shuttle Challenger and a U.S. Ferret-D electronic data-gathering satellite observed from above...
...article provoked a good deal of anger, particularly from KAL, which sued the magazine. The two sides reached a settlement in a British court last week under which Defence Attaché will print an apology and pay "substantial damages" to KAL. Further details of the settlement, including the amount to be paid to the airline, were not disclosed, but the South Korean government could not hide its pleasure. Calling the article "outrageously distorted," an official declared, "We hope the court settlement will put an end to the seemingly endless speculations about unauthorized missions of Flight...
This fall at Eliot House, however, nuisance turned to hardship when students increased not to attach wall decorations with tape, found that their renovated rooms lacked the mouldings along the ceilings from which students traditionally hang posters and paintings...