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When an inspector from the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) tried to walk unannounced into Ferrol G. ("Bill") Barlow's shop in Pocatello, Idaho, almost three years ago, the irritated proprietor refused him entry. Barlow, an electrical and plumbing subcontractor, cited the Bill of Rights, a copy of which hangs on his office wall, and particularly the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches" of private property. The inspector, Barlow insisted, needed a search warrant to inspect his place of business. After Barlow ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector...
...make surprise inspections; it ruled that a warrant must be obtained from a federal magistrate only if an employer demands it. Further, the court released OSHA from having to show probable cause, as in criminal searches, to get the warrant. Indeed, OSHA need not even suspect safety or health violations to request a warrant. Said OSHA'S chief, Eula Bingham: "It all depends on what the employers do. If most comply, there will be no problems. If they are not forthcoming, we will serve warrants automatically." She added that the ruling would increase paper work and bureaucratic procedures, hardly...
...limited expectations for the conference seemed to be confirmed by the conspicuous absence of the leaders of the two nuclear superpowers, Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter. While the Soviet chief might be excused because of his increasingly obvious ill health, Carter had been expected to use the U.N. forum to repeat his inaugural call for the "elimination of all nuclear weapons from this earth." But by a coincidence, a full-scale meeting of NATO partners had been scheduled for the week following the opening of the U.N. conference. Carter is planning to argue compellingly at the NATO summit...
...meeting in Washington, the N.H.O. will push for legislation that will allow insurance payments for hospice care. Zachary Morfogen, N.H.O. chairman, thinks enormous strides have already been made. Says he: "Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to persuade any corporation to include a hospice program under its health and medical plans. The reaction would have been, 'What are you doing, trying to create a death house?' Now people are willing to discuss such matters openly and candidly. Death has finally come out of the closet...
Regulation. Carter's Regulatory Analysis Review Group made its debut by persuading Labor Secretary Ray Marshall to put off new federal regulations against cotton dust in mills. Those regulations, proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, would have helped reduce lung disease among cotton-mill workers, but at an annual cost of $200 million...