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Michigan courts struck down that state's sobriety checkpoint program as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, but courts in other states have upheld virtually identical police tactics...
...checkpoint site, police directed all traffic headed in one direction to a roadside area where officers checked motorists for signs of intoxication...
...such checkpoint, Michigan state policetroopers checked 126 vehicles in less than an hourand detained two drivers for sobriety field tests.One driver was arrested on drunken-drivingcharges...
...laborers dared to flout the strike order. "Our situation is unbearable," said Mohammed, 51, standing at the heavily guarded crossing into Israel at 6:30 a.m. "We're trapped between the Israelis and the intifadeh." A father of 15, he risked attack by masked strike enforcers to reach the checkpoint. "Either I sneak out to work or my family starves," he complains...
...their trademark red scarves flapping in the breeze, clutched flowers. Just after 11:30, a military band burst into lively music to greet the first of 60 armored personnel carriers rumbling into sight across the steel "Friendship Bridge" at the border. When the lead vehicle clattered past the last checkpoint and onto Soviet soil, the six young soldiers on board broke into ear-to-ear grins...