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Whether in criminal or private cases, anyone has the right to refuse a test. Of course, this is hardly a safeguard for someone whose refusal-for whatever reason-may cost him a job. "It's a good social control policy," says Jerome Skolnick, director of the University of California's Center for the Study of Law and Society. "But is it acceptable?" Many businessmen have legitimate reasons for thinking so; but in a society where privacy is so highly prized, it may be a bad trade...
...obtained evidence. This year it availed itself of several opportunities to trim back those restrictions. In one case in which the Government had seized evidence illegally from one person, the court did not balk at allowing it to be used in the trial of another (U.S. vs. Payner). The safeguard against compulsory self-incrimination also came in for a little tightening: from now on, the prosecution can attack a criminal defendant's credibility by commenting on his prearrest silence...
...That a regulatory agency could not force companies to reduce the amount of benzene in the air breathed by workers if it merely believed, without proof, that this action would safeguard the workers' health. The ruling implied that regulators could not free a workplace of all risks to health and should not try. The vote...
...high official of the World Council of Churches, which the Russian Orthodox Church was permitted to join in 1961, points out that the Orthodox hierarchy consists of "churchmen who are struggling to safeguard their Christian integrity against great odds...
Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie has denounced the murder and called upon Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr to safeguard the nation's religious minorities, already officially protected by law. The Koran advocates tolerance for Jews and Christians as "People of the Book" (in their case the Bible). Beyond that, the nation's new Islamic constitution guarantees freedom for both religions and for Zoroastrianism as well, provided they are practiced "within the law." (That means, for example, they cannot use wine in ritual because alcohol is banned in Iran.) Others are guaranteed no freedom of worship...