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...harm. Not knowing the details of the case, I was effectively silenced Today I read that students rushed him and tried to hold him, that they prevented his departure by lying down in front and in back of his car, and that some students wanted to detain him until midnight. My dinner partner, not to my surprise, now appears to have been ignorant or a liar of a supporter of these disgraceful tactics of protest...
Nicholson was in fact stretching the limits of his privileges as a so-called legal spy: U.S. officials concede that the Soviets had every right to detain him. But he was stretching the boundaries of conduct no further than the Soviets have tried themselves, no doubt successfully on many occasions, in West Germany. Indeed, part of the "cat-and-mouse game," as one Washington official calls the ongoing test of nerve between liaison members and their hosts, is to keep the surveillance teams under close countersurveillance and nab them for infractions. Nicholson was the first liaison member from either side...
...meeting with whips and tear gas. The next day in Soweto they shot and killed a black man who threw a gasoline bomb at a police bus. The shooting brought the number killed in the riots to 41. In Durban, six political activists whom the government was trying to detain fled to the British consulate, where they were granted sanctuary. The wife of one of the men is Ela Ramgobin, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. Indeed, the week's events seemed likely to overshadow ceremonies for the introduction of the new constitution. Bringing nonwhites into the government for the first...
...Israeli vehicles. Israeli officers may question and detain Arabs at will, though residents may also appeal what they regard as unjust or illegal actions to the Israeli Supreme Court...
...children for medical evaluations. Church members charged that the raids were a form of religious persecution and a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state. Vermont officials insisted they were protecting the rights of the children. A state judge, after a closed court proceeding, refused to detain the youngsters. By day's end all the children were on their way home with their parents. A lawyer for some of the parents said that charges may be filed against the police for civil rights violations...