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IMMUNITY. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no one can be "compelled to be a witness against himself," but there has long been an important exception. Grand juries, courts and certain government agencies have been able to compel testimony by using the threat of a contempt sentence, after a witness is granted immunity from prosecution for all matters discussed. In 1970 the Nixon Administration persuaded Congress to enact a narrower immunity provision-a step quickly followed by at least a dozen states-assuring a witness immunity only from use of his testimony itself and of any evidence derived from...
Grayson plans to compel big-product firms-manufacturers of automobiles or steel, for example-literally to refund any overcharges discovered in their records by paying back individual customers. Only one company so far has been dealt that fate on the basis of its profit margin: Houston's Browning Ferris Industries was ordered to pay back $40,000 to its customers within 90 days, as well as to reduce future prices by a total of $120,000. But Ford's decision to lower prices on its high-volume models, including its LTD, Maverick and Mustang, may well have been...
Wild Card. Craig's aim is to compel London to reinstate Stormont and redraft a constitution ensuring Protestant control. "We are going to endeavor by all nonviolent means to make the British initiative unworkable," he declared last week in an interview with TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark. "We can burst the government." As a first step, Craig plans a rent strike by Protestant tenants of government-owned homes, and mass Protestant refusal to pay property taxes and utility bills. He is also considering the creation of an Ulster "provisional government"-a sort of government-in-exile-in-residence...
...recommendation, which Governor Love will urge upon the legislature next week, would compel developers to get an official certificate that sufficient water was available and that proper sewage-disposal facilities would be installed. "We've already got various tools-zoning and transportation-to stimulate the economy of Colorado's small towns and to prevent urban sprawl," Love says. "Water would be the ultimate tool...
They added that "investigating our records to determine whether a person has been under any form of government surveillance is a time-consuming process, and we hope the court will not compel us to do this with future witnesses in the grand jury proceedings...