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...that if Dutschke was well enough to study, he no longer qualified as a convalescent. In a convoluted explanation, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling explained that Dutschke should not remain in the country unless he was allowed to practice his political beliefs. Since the previous government had seen fit to prohibit Dutschke from doing so, the Tories intended to expel him by this week...
...state laws on air-quality control. In its present form, it sets national standards for ten air contaminants like carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide. Polluting industries would have to meet these standards in about five years. The bill also requires the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to prohibit hazardous emissions (asbestos, cadmium, mercury and beryllium) not covered by the air-quality standards. It orders new industrial plants to install antipollution devices, denies Government contracts to companies that violate air standards, and allows private citizens to sue polluting industries and individuals. To pay for research and administration, the bill allocates...
Among the court's most significant First Amendment cases is that of John Harris Jr. who was indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury under California's criminal-syndicalism act for distributing literature advocating terrorism. Passed in 1919 to prohibit the advocacy of crime, sabotage or violence, the act was challenged by Harris and declared unconstitutional by a U.S. district court because the broad language of the statute limits free speech. On appeal, the state argues, among other things, that the old law should be preserved in order to combat the new activities of Black Panthers, S.D.S. members...
Many men might be somewhat happier about the amendment's effects on divorce laws. It would prohibit the payment of alimony only to women, for example, so that in many cases men might collect. In child custody suits, any legal preference shown to mothers would be eliminated...
...Nixon Administration has pledged not to send U.S. ground troops into Cambodia again, and the Cooper-Church Amendment, which passed the Senate in June, would specifically prohibit direct U.S. air support to Cambodian troops. But near the embattled town of Skoun last week, an Associated Press reporter watched a Cambodian officer request-and get-an air strike by American F-100s, whose bombs landed a scant 300 yds. from the Cambodian positions. In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird parried the inevitable inquiries about the U.S. air support with an exercise in semantics. The U.S. pilots were not providing "air support...