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...President will no longer have an automatic right to order wiretapping without a court order. American citizens can be tapped only if they are "engaged in clandestine intelligence activities, sabotage, terrorist activities," are doing so under the "direction of a foreign power," and a federal judge issues a warrant. Ford has agreed to back it. At least, it beats showy confrontation, veto and stalemate. What with a bipartisan resolution attempting to take détente out of politics (see page 31), it just might be that the U.S. is rediscovering the art of compromise...
...resort near Aspen, Colo. Crested Butte wanted to use 2,000 acres of federal land on nearby Mount Snodgrass for a second, $45 million ski area. The U.S. Forest Service tentatively turned down the proposal in January 1975 on grounds that Crested Butte did not draw enough skiers to warrant the expansion...
...film Three Days of the Condor. But no persuasive proof was offered to support this theory. In any case, the police let it be known that fingerprints had been found on the gasoline can next to the burial site, and at week's end they issued a warrant for Bishop's arrest for the murder of his wife...
...ruling the day before by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler, who held that material taken from the apartment could not be used in the forthcoming state trial of the Harrises because it had been seized by FBI agents who had not obtained the necessary search warrant.* Browning wanted to show the jury some of these materials, which covered the year before Patty was arrested, on the grounds that they indicated that she had actively cooperated with the S.L.A. in "casing banks" instead of having been, as she claimed, an unwilling captive of the terrorist band...
Like fishermen who come back emptyhanded, prosecutors and police endlessly complain about the ones who got away. Especially galling are those who escape because of legal rules: drug pushers caught dirty but without the proper search warrant, Mafiosi discovered through an illegal wiretap, thugs with guns whose car was stopped by cops acting without probable cause. In such cases, the catchall-or lose-all-complication is the exclusionary rule, which provides that evidence seized illegally may not be used in court...