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...student Mike lnga, more than half a dozen students there have signed up for security patrols modeled on the New York-based Guardian Angels, who have set up civilian patrols designed to deter street crime in many major U.S. cities...
...thrust of the document remains its challenge to many central elements of the U.S. policy of relying on an arsenal of nuclear weapons to deter the Soviet Union from starting a war. The panel still accepts John Paul's view that deterrence is "morally acceptable" if it is part of a process leading to disarmament. But the committee clearly remains deeply distressed by the basic concept of deterrence: U.S. willingness to counterattack by launching nuclear missiles. Since such an assault would be bound to kill countless civilians near military targets, it might well conflict with the tenets...
...course, even the achievement of strategic stability would open up areas of concern now dormant. It would bring to the fore the pressing need to build up conventional forces to deter non-nuclear challenges. That problem would be addressed in a new environment. For all parties would know that they have taken-at last-a big step toward avoiding nuclear catastrophe. This is an imperative that humanity demands and reality imposes...
Before a crowded, tense courtroom last week, Illinois First Assistant Attorney General Paul Biebel told the Justices that the actions of the Bloomingdale police "can only be characterized as thorough and professional. This is clearly not the kind of activity the exclusionary rule was meant to deter." Speaking against a legal rule that the President has called "absurd," U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee added that the search was made in the "reasonable good-faith belief " that it was constitutional; second thoughts by an appeals court should not bar use of "highly relevant" evidence. James Reilley, the Gateses' attorney, countered...
...York City Deputy Police Commissioner Kenneth Conboy claims that the rule does not deter much official misconduct. If evidence is discarded at trial, he says, "most officers don't care. You know why? Because the guy rarely goes to jail anyway." Besides, police have no certainty that their best efforts will stand up. "You're talking about sophisticated, subtle distinctions," notes Conboy. "It takes judges months to reach decisions. Police have to make them instantaneously, in alleys, with guns and knives around...