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...person who is arrested without a warrant is entitled to a "prompt" ruling by a judge to determine whether the arrest was lawful. But what does "prompt" mean? Last week the Supreme Court held, in a 5-to-4 vote, that suspects may generally be jailed for as long as 48 hours. While the decision was in line with the court's recent law-and-order tilt, there was a surprise dissenter: conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Arguing that a 24-hour delay was the constitutional limit, Scalia fumed, "Hereafter a law-abiding citizen wrongfully arrested may be compelled to await...
College administrators are carefully monitoring the situation, and any such drastic change will probably prompt an appeal to Congress to pass legislation permitting them to renew the overlap process...
...After numerous leaks about the Kelley book's contents, the company moved up its publication date from May to early April without informing Cannon, he claims. Although President Reagan has landed on some best-seller lists, Cannon has hired a lawyer to explore possible legal action. That move may prompt the publisher to promote the book more aggressively...
...future of gay studies? While anonymous provocateurs were plastering the campus with lewd depictions of gay sex, members of AALARM were busy launching a pro-family counteroffensive with those rarely seen but still infamous blue square pins. The combined nonsense of the whole affair was enough to prompt the formation of SEXS (Students Exasperated by eXcessive Symbolism...
Turkey has put the Kurds on notice that it may use force to prevent the establishment of an independent Kurdish state in Iraq. Ankara has a historic , claim on Iraq's Mosul province which it might use as a pretext for such a move. That might in turn prompt Iran and Syria to seize their own pieces of Iraq. Two weeks ago, Turkish officials met with Iraqi Kurdish leaders for the first time. In exchange for that rare acknowledgment of their legitimacy, the Kurds apparently promised Ankara that they would not foment rebellion among their brethren in Turkey...