Word: informant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing Mistress Margery, Susan Ehrlich has firm control of her part, though as the program notes inform us, she assumed it less than two weeks ago. She is completely convincing as the artless girl, unschooled in the ways of the city, but eager to learn...
...point of religious doctrine. The impromptu sermon was held to be legal even though it caused a commotion in the church. But it was held to be a disturbance of worship for one faction of a congregation to enter a church while another faction was worshipping there and to inform the minister of the rival faction that he could not preach there that day. ( Morris us. State, Alabama, 1887.) Such behavior evidently crossed the line between reasonable interruption and unwarranted disturbance...
Unpersuasive Argument. Last week a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court saved the Government's case, holding that neither state nor federal agents need warrants to rig their informants with bugs. Four Justices felt bound by a line of cases holding that an individual has no constitutional right to protection from informers. "Inescapably," wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, "one contemplating illegal activities must realize and risk that his companions may be reporting to the police." White found the addition of a hidden third party to the conversation an unpersuasive argument to challenge the constitutionality of the surveillance. According...
Brown said he would first inform coach Harrison before talking with any professional club. "The man is not only my coach but is a good friend as well." he said. "I'm sure that whatever decision I would make in regard to a professional career would leave no hard feelings...
CLUM chairman Roy Hammer said that the suit was part of an American Civil Liberties Union drive to inform citizens of the surveillance techniques used by various agencies of government and to limit the use of these procedures. The police chief and the department have thus far declined comment on the case...