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...ubiquitous message beepers and by sophisticated police equipment like mini- video cameras. The lack of clear legal rules for police use of the equipment promises to keep the courts busy. Just last month two federal courts clashed on the issue when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 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...
...that country. From January 1981 until November 1983, the Commerce Department issued Cooperman and his committee seven licenses to export goods to Viet Nam; all the exports were officially described as "humanitarian aid." According to records recovered from Cooperman's office, however, his purchases included such items as closed-circuit video-surveillance equipment and Apple computers. Sending Hanoi these sophisticated products would almost certainly be illegal. "The law says you cannot even export a bicycle," notes Steve Johnson, Viet Nam desk officer at the State Department...
...gave a new measure of respect to the ECAC, as the Eagles, atop newfangled super league Hockey East, failed to hand a representative of the older circuit a sound defeat...
Remote cameras, which have been in use for more than a decade, remain a successful piece of equipment for catching thieves. At Marshall Field's in Chicago a guard monitors a bank of 39 closed-circuit television screens watching for shoplifters. He is also in radio contact with guards on the floor so that a thief can be caught before slipping out of the store...
Lewis: Can I just interrupt to chime in with an apt quotation on the point Howard was making. This is a wonderful libel opinion. Its an opinion of Judge Bork's in a case decided in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit last week. "In deciding a case like this therefore, one of the most important considerations is whether the person alleging defamation has in some real sense placed himself in an arena where he should expect to be jostled and bumped in a way that a private person need not expect. Where politics and ideas about...