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Israeli soldiers and border police can enter Arab homes without a warrant. Palestinians are routinely stopped and required to show identification papers. Arabs can be detained for up to six months without trial. Their houses can be sealed or demolished on suspicion that a member of the family is engaged in "terrorist" activity. They can be arrested for dozens of offenses that do not exist in Israel, including flying the Palestinian flag, reading "subversive" literature or holding a press conference without permission...
...give up their constitutional rights when they step onto school property. But the Justices have also recognized that the need for an orderly school environment sometimes imposes limits on those rights. In recent years, for example, the majority has voted to permit the search of student possessions without a warrant and has allowed school officials to suspend a student for making sexual innuendos in a speech. The Justices were in that mood again last week when, in a 5 to 3 ruling, the court upheld a high school principal's right to censor a student newspaper...
...MANDATE to inculcate moral and political values," Justice William Brennan Jr. points out, "is not a general warrant to act as thought police." The lesson was lost on the majority of Brennan's Supreme Court colleagues, who last week effectively deputized the nation's high school administrators to quash the expression of whatever opinions they deem objectionable. The opinion may well be used to justify censorship of student newspapers and journals in state universities. It mocks--or perhaps reveals--what passes for the nation's historic commitment to free speech...
...from Pacific Island outposts, and the city that Columnist Herb Caen likes to call "Baghdad by the Bay" more closely resembles Hong Kong East. Says New York-born and Hong Kong- reared Leslie Tang, 32, a commercial developer: "We don't have the political representation that our presence would warrant. We have been accused of being invisible, but there will be a rise in Asian political activity...
...remain anonymous, the woman gave police and court officials several different aliases, including Shirley Yu-Plotkin and Shirley Maxer. Saying she "seemed kind of deranged," the police official added that the woman skipped her arraignment proceedings earlier this week. She now faces "arrest on sight" by a default warrant...