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When Sen. Jesse A. Helms (R-N.C.) finally decided yesterday morning that he would suspend his push for legislation to prevent the Justice Department from intervening in cases involving involuntary school busing, he knew he had not lost much ground in this major civil rights battle...
...advertisement, the group urged the U.S. and Japanese governments to suspend all aid to South Korea if the Chun Doo Hwan government does not free...
...Sunday the Majlis met to discuss the fate of the hostages. After a stormy public debate, the members went into secret session, which ended without a resolution of the issue; another secret session was scheduled for Monday. Moderate forces in the Majlis defeated a motion to suspend debate until after the U.S. elections. But anti-American zealots were carrying out a filibuster, designed to prevent an early vote on proposed conditions for the hostages' release that were believed to be acceptable...
...degree of internal security" change the status quo. Although the regime later created a right of appeal to the courts, Decree Law 1877 (August 12, 1977) nullified this right by stipulating that under a "state of emergency" the regime possessed the power to detain Chilean citizens arbitrarily and suspend appeal to the courts. Until the revocation of the "state of siege" in March 1978 Chile remained under both a "state of siege" and a "state of emergency...
...addition, many of the emergency powers Pinochet has wielded since 1973 would remain intact. Buried among the constitution's guarantees of individual rights is an article allowing the President to arrest individuals without charge and suspend constitutional freedoms at the mere "danger of the perturbation of internal peace." The new constitution seems to offer Chileans the sort of authoritarianism they have had all along. Only in 1997 may they elect their President; until then, the choice will be made for them...