Word: suspected
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Technology smuggling has, moreover, become both efficient and elaborate. The VAX was bought by an unidentified firm in New York State and apparently shipped by air to South Africa. Then, authorities suspect, a West German named Richard Mueller arranged to have the computer transported via Sweden to the Soviet Union. Mueller, who owns a fleet of shadowy companies with ever shifting names, has already been implicated in two major violations of U.S. export...
...Zona was killed intentionally, officials said, the suspect could be charged with murder. Depending on the circumstances, that crime could result in a penalty as serious as the death sentence...
Nevertheless, the Supreme Court precedent created by Korematsu's case remains the law of the land. Ironically, Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion, which stated for the first time that racial classifications were constitutionally "suspect," helped establish a foundation for decisions striking down racial discrimination. But Black also found that "pressing public necessity may sometimes justify" restrictions on racial groups. That is worrisome, says Stanford Constitutional Scholar Gerald Gunther. "The unsettling aspects of Korematsu are not removed by the fact that 40 years later someone can say that it shouldn't have happened...
...news," giving them far too much power in the process. Andrew Schwartzman, head of the Media Access Project in Washington, contends that since local broadcasters are likely to have "family, business partners and friends involved in local politics," their judgment in choosing candidates for station-sponsored debates might be suspect...
...more authority to investigate disappearances of children, as well as the filming this fall of a made-for-TV movie, Adam. By coincidence, the show aired a week before Toole's prison confession, which he later recanted. But police still consider him the case's prime suspect. "He knows things only the murderer could know," says one Florida policeman...