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...naval vessel, you can find yourself covered under the definition of international terrorist," says Mort Halperin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and onetime head of the A.C.L.U.'s Washington office. "You could be subject to secret searches of your home, to wiretaps under much less stringent standards than under the requirements of criminal...
...slipping away. "It's reasonable to assume he has a Plan B as to his own safety," says the intelligence official. The Pentagon is watching the mountain passes along the south and west of Afghanistan's long, porous border with Pakistan, and pushing the Islamabad government to mount stringent patrols. The search concentrated last week on the ridges of Tora Bora, just southwest of Jalalabad, where a thousand or so Arab fighters were holed up. Last month Afghans passing through reported spotting bin Laden near the Tora Bora bunker built by mujahedin in the 1980s. Washington ordered the Navy...
REMEDY The Canadian safety board has asked the FAA to require safer wiring and more stringent rules to keep flammable materials off planes...
...take the first tenuous steps to a merger between Harvard and Radcliffe, put emphasis on more stringent academic standards and pushed for a greater role for religion at the College...
...largest council agenda items, such as the comprehensive rezoning of the city done last February, Davis voted against the majority and for the more stringent, activist-favored plan...