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...plans for at least the seventh coup since he seized power one year ago, Guatemala's President Efrain Ríos Montt last week declared an official "state of alarm" to muzzle his critics. Under the new orders, privately owned firearms are to be confiscated, political meetings are forbidden and nothing may be published or broadcast that might "disturb the peace of Guatemala." The government also reserved the right to search homes at will and to arrest anyone suspected of Marxist-Leninist activities. For the moment, at least, the general had survived...
Though a few films, like the 3-D Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, seemed to shrivel in Jedi's glare, others gained: many people who could not get into the Skywalker saga took second best and picked a film playing near by. The movie business was not the only one making money from the picture, however. Stores selling Jedi toys, books and T shirts were also busy. "Return of the Jedi items are flying out of here," said Marian Every, manager of an F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in Washington. Pepperidge Farm reported brisk sales of Jedi cookies: chocolate...
...affair of the faked diaries has raised grave questions of journalistic duty. Stern's staff concluded, in a dictum that had unique emotional force in West Germany, though less practical application elsewhere: "Even if the diaries were genuine, publication in Stern should have been forbidden in consideration of the victims of Nazi power." In the U.S., historians and social scientists labeled the diaries legitimate news, if authentic, but condemned some coverage as sensational. Concluded Yale University Psychohistorian Robert Jay Lifton: "In the melodrama unfolding before us, responsibility to history or to profound moral questions was lost in the intensity...
Vagrancy, or loitering, laws have drawn the court's disapproval before. In 1972, the Justices unanimously struck down a Jacksonville ordinance aimed at "rogues and vagabonds" along with "common railers and brawlers." Such language does not clearly define the forbidden conduct to an ordinary citizen and "encourages arbitrary and erratic arrests," said Justice William Douglas. Many state and local lawmakers responded by trying to make the language of their vagrancy laws more precise. The statutes are needed, say authorities, to help police on patrol reduce crime. When the court decided to review California's law, the International Association...
...single red rose when he picked her up. An upperclassman who had known Richard at St. Martin's had lent him his rooms in an upperclass house, a suite, which was safer and more relaxing than where Richard lived, where the presence of any woman at all was strictly forbidden. There was a bottle of chilled champagne and a copy of the Kama Sutra...