Word: detainment
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These were no mere dry technicalities, and the atmosphere in the marbled courtroom was unusually expectant during last week's 2½ hours of oral argument as the Justices peppered the lawyers with more than 100 questions. "I am sorry to detain you," said courtly Justice Lewis Powell Jr. of Virginia as he prolonged the questioning of one attorney. "But this is a very important case." Indeed it was. The Burger Court-with its moderate-to-conservative majority now strengthened by John Paul Stevens-is considering whether to cut back two of the most critical and criticized features...
...believed that police had the right to detain a suspect for as long as a week without bringing charges...
...redevelopment authority approves the power plant, only a planned court suit from Boston Edison, the current electrical supplier in the area, could detain completion of both the power plant and housing project...
...superb. But if it needs more money and manpower to check out security risks ahead of a visit and follow suspected dangerous people during a Ford appearance, it should be given such resources. Inevitably, delicate judgments would still have to be made. There is no way to tail or detain every marginally threatening person...
Then the Secret Service committed what could have turned out to be a fatal mistake. It made no effort to detain her further or to place her under surveillance while Ford was in California. Its officials have refused to explain why. A Washington spokesman would say only that the interview showed she "was not of sufficient protection interest to warrant surveillance." San Francisco police believe, however, that the federal agents were satisfied with Moore's claim that she had needed a gun for fear of reprisal from radicals for informing on their activities to the FBI. The agents were also...