Word: laws
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...Government policy, the A.C.L.U, insisted, has already created "a chill and a pall" among those legitimate political protesters who might fall within the Government's new eavesdropping "dragnet." University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar speculated recently that the Nixon Administration was openly inviting a showdown with the Supreme Court on the wiretapping issue. "The court is hurt," explained Kamisar, "and the Justice Department thinks it can win, given the current public climate about crime and coddling criminals...
...Guarantee. Many law-enforcement officials argue that the benefits of restrained wiretapping far outweigh the hazards. On the basis of his own experience as a prosecutor in the New York courts, Columbia Law Professor Richard Uviller contends that bugging is one of the most effective weapons against organized crime. A preliminary report on the effects of the wiretap provisions of the new crime-control law tends to bear him out: the 174 taps authorized by four state courts after the Omnibus Crime Bill was passed last year led to no fewer than 263 arrests. "We can't guarantee that...
...California cities have been sued because of sex courses by citizen groups charging invasion of privacy. Legislators in Arizona, California, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma have recently debated the merits of sex-education programs. Last May, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller approved a conservative-backed law withholding state funds from sex education courses, and a similar bill has been proposed in Congress to withhold federal monies. Tennessee has adopted a new law making it a misdemeanor for a teacher to present sex courses without prior approval of both the state government and local boards of education...
...When a law was passed in 1960 putting papers under the jurisdiction of the Arab Socialist Union (Egypt's only political party), Heikal went straight to Nasser: "I got his assurance that, if we could grow, make money and not compromise the revolution, there would be no problem." Rarely has there been...
...most striking conclusion was that about 7% of the products studied, or almost 300 drugs, are not effective for any of the uses suggested by the manufacturers in their advertising. Others are effective only for certain suggested uses. Since efficacy must be established beyond reasonable doubt under the 1962 law, the result of these findings will be to sweep scores of familiar products from druggists' shelves. Hundreds of others will have to be relabeled, with fewer, less provocative and appealing claims...