Word: processing
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...prisoners are planning to seek their release on writs of habeas corpus, contending that Mexican courts do not have the authority to imprison anyone in the U.S. Some are even expected to appeal on grounds that the U.S.-Mexican treaty forced them to waive their constitutional rights of due process when they pledged not to contest their convictions in U.S. courts. One big problem: if such legal challenges are sustained, there will probably be no more prisoner transfers...
Carter dispatched Vance to the Middle East with these revised tidings: to counsel moderation and sound out the possibilities for bringing Syria back into the negotiating process and to emphasize that Washington is not pushing for a separate deal between Cairo and Jerusalem. The U.S. had hoped to avoid an additional trip by the Secretary of State this year, fearing the effect of another spectacular without results. But in the end the President decided the U.S. must give Sadat all the help it can, particularly after the other Arabs rejected Sadat's invitation...
Seventy years ago, in The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad described an act of anarchist terrorism as "a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought." Today West Germans, in ordeals of introspection and defensive truculence, are trying to understand the almost autistic fury of their own terrorists. Why should their country-its political system stable and democratic, its wealth distributed reasonably well, its society open and obsessively moderate -have produced the murderous young of the Baader-Meinhof gang and the Red Army Faction...
...Lowell papers, however, will not be available to the University community or the general public for some four to six weeks, while they undergo the laborious process of cataloguing and microfilming. It is hoped that this process can be carried out as quickly as possible, and that all the information contained in the files eventually sees the light of day; perhaps then, one of the most controversial cases in American jurisprudential history will finally be nearer to resolution...
Lance M. Liebman, a Yale corporation member and a professor of Law here, said early yesterday he does not know if Yale will be able to end the search process so soon. "The end of next week might be too optimistic," he said...