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...Florida case weighs the public interest served by allowing police broad power in cracking down on illegal firearms against an individual's constitutional protection from unwarranted search and seizure. Criminal-rights activists contend that a ruling in law enforcement's favor will in esssence allow police to search and detain whomever they please, as long as they say they received a tip that the suspect was carrying a gun. In the other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after the Miranda decision - that said voluntarily given confessions...
...myself, while I healed." He debriefed everyone, from the psychiatrists to whom Lo described the inner voice that told him "it is time" to start shooting, to the gun dealer who sold Lo the Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle, to the Simon's Rock College officials who failed to detain Lo even after they were warned that he had a gun. The result is a tapestry of shared pain and guilt in which everyone, including the killer, is in some sense a victim...
Such boasts carry little weight with the NATO forces. Says a well-placed officer in Trebinje: "If we detain Karadzic, nothing will happen. They have too many other problems." The only impediments to his capture, say those working for peace in Bosnia, are in Washington, Paris and other capitals. Says U.S. diplomat Jacques Klein: "There won't be real justice until these people have their day in court...
That is easier said than done. Plans for a London meeting were aborted when British authorities refused Abdi a visa. He has had to make his preparations in utmost secrecy lest Iran's still powerful hard-liners detain him before his departure for France. Once a fervent supporter of Iran's clerical regime, Abdi was arrested in 1993 and spent nearly a year in prison for criticizing the mullahs' aversion to democracy...
...coming, awaits that person, receives a call from us when the guest arrives and instructs us to send him up. This system prevents uninvited visitors. But for every Jehovah's Witness it frustrates, it also seems to keep out unexpected but eminently welcome visitors. With a sadistic pleasure, we detain tenants' friends and relatives, keeping them in the lobby until their host returns home, wakes up or gets out of the shower to vouch for their good character. I hope those who are kept waiting find some solace in our obeisance to the rules and rituals...