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...plaintiffs spoke at a May 5 memorial service protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State University. The suit alleges that police made photographs and wrote a surveillance report on the event and entered them into a dossier it maintains on the plaintiffs...
...Dossier Dictatorship. More recently, Ervin has criticized two institutions that most conservatives hold dear: the FBI and the U.S. Army. He accuses both of snooping on Americans in ways that endanger First Amendment freedoms of speech, thought and privacy. "If we are going to be a free society," says Ervin, "the Government is going to have to take some risks; they can't put everyone under surveillance...
Last week Ervin's subcommittee began hearings on his biggest concern to date: how to safeguard the political liberties of U.S. citizens from what one witness called "dossier dictatorship"-the vast files that are now being computerized by assorted snoopers, ranging from credit bureaus to Army agents, who allegedly concentrate their spying on war protesters. Dramatizing his worries about computers, Ervin displayed two props: a 1,245-page Bible and a two-inch-square piece of microfilm, each containing 773,746 words. "Someone remarked that this meant the Constitution could be reduced to the size of a pin-head...
...PERSONAL PORTFOLIO: Each student should be encouraged to put together a personal portfolio or dossier to include his permanent transcript and samples of his best work. The rationale for this proposal is that a student should be judged as a person and not as a collection of grades. If a student decided to apply for a position in a graduate school or a business establishment, he and his assessors would all benefit from a less impersonal presentation his accomplishments...
Those charges, brought by female prisoners in Rio de Janeiro, come from "Terror in Brazil," a 15,000-word dossier compiled by the American Committee for Information on Brazil. The document was endorsed by 34 concerned citizens, including Black Leader Ralph Abernathy and John Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary. According to the dossier, Brazil's military regime has resorted to a whole catalogue of horrors in its effort to root out dissidents...