Word: warrant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the early weeks of martial law, recalls Cory, she could not watch television lest she see Marcos or her husband's official jailer, Defense Minister Enrile (the man who signed the arrest warrant was none other than General Ramos). In her conjugal visits, she had to share her husband with hidden cameras and bugs. Once, when Ninoy's guards simply removed him from sight for more than six weeks, Cory was forced to wander from prison to prison in search...
...Miami Vice antics of Rivera's show highlighted concerns about the increasingly common practice of letting TV crews tag along on drug raids. A search warrant, says Judge Shipley, does not give police "permission to put the whole nation into somebody's house with TV cameras." Some police officials object that the cameras, lights and onlookers can jeopardize safety. Nor is TV merely an eavesdropper. During one raid on Rivera's show, an officer could plainly be heard to make a telling, and disturbing, inquiry: "We are still live...
...West Berlin verdict and the subsequent sanctions may not be the end of international embarrassment for Damascus. A Turkish court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for a Syrian diplomat accused of ordering the murder of a Jordanian diplomat in 1985. In addition, Austrian and Italian authorities investigating last December's airport massacres in Vienna and Rome are seeking indications of Syrian involvement...
...FOUND nothing wrong with the textbooks. He found that many people, even those with more orthodox religious convictions, might find the plaintiffs' beliefs "inconsistent, illogical, incomprehensible, and unacceptable." But he also found the religious beliefs of a group of fundamentalist Christians in Tennessee to be "sincere"--that is, to warrant excusing the parents' children from having to read the local school system's text-book series...
...whites is unconstitutionally "arbitrary and capricious." In a number of other criminal cases, prosecutors will continue to press the Justices for ever larger exceptions to the rule that makes improperly obtained evidence inadmissible at a suspect's trial. For example, they will argue that heroin seized with a warrant should not be suppressed even if police mistakenly search the wrong apartment...