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...hold more than 12 rounds, his gun falls under the District’s machine gun ban. Heller is now hoping to repeat the success of his first lawsuit, forcing the District to comply with the words of the decision, which stated that “the District must permit [Heller] to register his handgun and must issue him a license to carry in the home...
...demonstrators will have to register. That makes it unlikely that rallies for sensitive causes like Tibetan autonomy or the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement will be approved. "In the scenario where there is still a need to obtain prior approval it's pretty clear that nobody will get a permit if they demonstrate for things that China considers criminal," says Bequelin...
...significant because of the flexibility available to military commissions in accepting evidence. The commission's rules, unlike those used in civilian trials, allow the admission of pre-2005 testimony gleaned during "cruel" and "inhuman" interrogations, so long as the judge deems that evidence relevant and reliable. The rules also permit hearsay evidence. The judge said he would not bar statements Hamdan made after arriving at Guantánamo, where the trial's opening arguments took place Tuesday. But he insisted that prosecutors present the interrogators involved to explain the conditions under which Hamdan made those statements...
...treaty, Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of SDI, said that his program might confront "a problem in terms of the narrow interpretation of the treaty somewhere in 1989," two years earlier than previous Administration estimates. Perle declared that a new, looser interpretation of the ABM treaty, one that would permit the development of SDI technology, "is going to happen within the lifetime of this Administration." Although Nitze assented that the less restrictive interpretation was correct, he denied that it was Administration policy to apply...
...basic advantages: active production lines for manufacturing ICBMs, strategic bombers and submarine-launched missiles; and the greater throw weight of Soviet missiles, which would allow them to be loaded up with many more warheads. House Armed Services Chairman Les Aspin says the Soviet production-line superiority would permit Soviet strategic forces to grow 65% by 1989, compared with 45% for the U.S. The House Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution last week urging the President to adhere to the limits, and legislation has been introduced in both the House and the Senate to block funding of any weapons that would...