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...prominent Tel Aviv attorney and former head of the Israel Bar Association, to conduct the investigation along with Zvi Tsur, a former armed forces Chief of Staff. Like the Knesset subcommittee, which began its own inquiry last week, the two- member committee will not have the right to compel witnesses to appear, and its conclusions will not be binding on the government...
...Congress, the House and Senate investigating committees Wednesday approved a timetable for taking the testimony of Adm. John Poindexter, should the panels decide to compel him to talk under an immunity grant. A separate timetable was set for Lt. Col. Oliver North...
Reagan has called on Congress to provide limited immunity to two key former aides to compel their testimony. The two, former national security adviser John M. Poindexter and his former aide, Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, cited their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in refusing to testify late last year before other congressional committees...
...Marshall concluded that the California law did not violate the federal law or discriminate against men, as Cal Fed claimed. Rather it "promotes equal employment opportunity" by allowing "women, as well as men, to have families without losing their jobs." The Justice noted that the California statute "does not compel employers to treat pregnant workers better than other disabled employees; it merely establishes benefits that employers must, at a minimum, provide to pregnant workers. Employers are free to give comparable benefits to other disabled employees...
...themselves." And as Tribe's latest book, God Save This Honorable Court, clearly shows, the very breadth of the Constitution makes it an imperfect guide in specific matters. Such vague phrases as "unreasonable search," "equal protection of the laws," or "due process," writes Tribe, "not only invite but compel the Supreme Court to put meaning into the | Constitution" rather than simply trying to take meaning from...