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Special permission had to be granted by a faculty committee to allow the benefit. The committee voted unanimously to suspend the normal injunction against letting students use University facilities for private fund-raising affairs...
...national scale, the only power I know of is the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and that is rather strictly confined," Freund said...
President Lincoln attempted to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus by executive order during the first two years of the Civil War. When that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the Congress expressly authorized him to suspend it, with safeguards, for the duration...
Shaky Foundation. Rather than negotiate, President Pacheco has cracked down on the guerrillas. With no protests from the opposition Blanco Party, he received authorization from Congress to suspend civil rights for 20 days, thus permitting police to make searches without a warrant and to hold suspects without charge or an appearance before a judge. More than 12,000 police and military men are on the case. In their house-to-house search of Montevideo, they have already made 1,500 arrests and detained 75 suspects...
Such complaints are more than offset, however, by the knowledge that the SA3 missiles have caused the Israelis to suspend their deep-penetration raids for fear of direct confrontation with the Soviets. Egyptian morale, in fact, is at its highest point in months. "The uncertainty of the future still gnaws at everybody," a Cairo businessman said last week, "but at least we know that Cairo won't be bombed." The piles of sandbags have disappeared from the Nile bridges, blue dimout paint has been scraped off windows and automobile headlights, and Suleyman Pasha Square is bathed in new floodlights...