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...Italy, lawyers have protested that too many persons are imprisoned for long periods and, if they are later declared innocent, may not recover damages for false imprisonment. Even in Britain, where a man may obtain his release by merely promising to pay bail, judges have broad power to lock up persons whom they consider dangerous. That such a system can be abused has been dramatically demonstrated by South Africa, where the ruling white minority may imprison for an indefinite time persons accused of "terrorist activities...
...often disguised with ski masks, wigs, dark glasses or turned-up turtleneck sweaters. Officers are also loath to adopt extreme precautions. One that has done so is Washington's aptly named Security Bank. After three robberies at one branch in 55 days last summer, Security decided to lock the front door permanently. Customers enter through a rear door, and tellers work behind tall panes of Plexiglas...
...Brezhnev and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny (Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders were reportedly in the following car). In any event, the Soviets dismissed him as a "mentally disturbed" youth of about 20. It was a convenient label, since a favorite Soviet device for dealing with political dissenters is to lock them up in insane asylums...
Before this year, some girls could lock their rooms from the inside; however, locks on the outside of doors were considered to be a fire hazard. J. Boyd Britton, administrative Vice president of Radcliffe, made the decision that locks should be installed on the outsides of doors so that girls could lock their rooms when they left...
Earlier this year, the Radcliffe Administration planned to suggest that students might pay Buildings and Grounds to install locks if they wished. However, they decided that this was discriminatory. The college will pay the cost of lock installation, Mrs. Bunting announced Thursday...