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Taken to its logical extreme, this rationale would let police search any home anywhere because police could physically break down any door and most people realize this. In a bitter twist of irony, the majority of the New Jersey Court suggested that random locker searches would be legal if students knew that their lockers could be physically searched. Here, as with the supreme court's condonement of roadblocks searching every car on a given road, we have the new legal doctrine of equal injustice masquerading as equal protection...
...seaside capital of St. George's remained a mystery, perhaps even to the participants. Callers to the Prime Minister's office were told that staff members were sorry, but everybody was too tied up in meetings to come to the telephone. In another bizarre twist, charter flights into Grenada were politely informed that sure, they could land, as long as they were not carrying any Grenadians as passengers. Most islanders were too muddled by the proceedings even to choose sides...
...opened by each nation, one in Chicago, the other in Chengdu, which is some 950 miles southwest of Peking. Though hardly expected to pass up the opportunity to remind Reagan of "the Taiwan problem," the Chinese will be pleased to greet him: his visit will be yet another twist in the continuing diplomatic but psychological warfare that Peking is waging against Moscow. Declared one White House official last week: "There are no stars in anyone's eyes on either side this time. But both sides see the importance of building the relationship." Indeed, after Andropov's outburst...
...matter how much Alexander Cockburn in the Village Voice and others like him believe in the absolute corruptability of our government, they still cannot by any stretch of the imagination twist evidence into a condemnation of this country's role in the affair...
Oswald Spengler, who liked to think that the twilight of Western civilization will be marked not by true religion, but by an upsurge of fervid religiosity. Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera that is rocking Broadway's new season, is show biz with a twist: Director Tom O'Horgan, who was influenced by Olsen & Johnson, has made it into a sort of Heavenzapoppin...