Word: provisionally
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No-Knock. The D.C. crime bill puts heavy emphasis on strengthening police power to gather evidence. The Fourth Amendment guarantees a person's right to be "secure" against "unreasonable searches and seizures." But what is reasonable? The measure would expand police authority to use bugs and wiretaps against suspected...
Official Lawlessness. Such a time limit on rights is clearly unconstitutional, argues the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. With the proliferation of electronic data banks, an association report charges, prosecutors would be encouraged to maintain illegal files on suspects and use the leads after a...
Before he left the capital, however, Nixon had to pluck a couple of unavoidable legislative nettles. One of them was more than garden variety: renewal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which came to his desk for signature with a provision for votes for 18-year-olds firmly attached...
Executive Watch. Japan's chief negotiator, Kiichi Miyazawa, Minister of International Trade and Industry, was under as much pressure from his country's textile men as Stans was from the U.S. industry. Accompanying Miyazawa to Washington and keeping close watch to see that he did not surrender too...
Special Interests. The U.S., on the other hand, seems in no mood to encourage more imports. Nixon last week declined to back mandatory quotas for the shoe industry, but he did order the Tariff Commission to begin a study of shoe imports under the "escape clause" provision of the General...