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...from the police department's rules and regulations, an angry city councilor Saundra Graham, who led the criticism of the incident, said police offers are not allowed to fire warning or "wound shots." She also contended that the officer involved knew, the victim and could easily have obtained a warrant for his arrest...
...another action last week, the Supreme Court continued its pattern of expanding a citizen's guarantee of privacy in his home. The Justices decided, 7 to 2, that an arrest warrant alone does not authorize police to enter homes, other than a suspect's own, where they think he may be hiding. Specific search warrants for those homes are required, wrote Thurgood Marshall, because an arrest warrant protects the rights of only the suspect...
...controversy they provoked, the FBI statements appear to be consistent with some of the findings in the investigation so far. TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph N. Boyce has verified that family members have indeed been suspects in at least three of the murders (although evidence is still insufficient to warrant an indictment in any of them), and that some of the 23 victims were involved with adult homosexuals. Timothy Hill, a slain 13-year-old, reportedly told an adult confidant that he had had such liaisons. At least three other victims may also have had homosexual relationships, possibly for money...
...Huggins and the executive committee disagreed with Wright and Southern: arguing that there were no "sufficient and compelling reasons" to warrant an extension. Huggins refused to comment yesterday...
...never wielded any weapon but my typewriter," Colombian Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), 53, complained after a hasty departure from his basement apartment in Bogota last month. Fearing a secret warrant for his arrest, the novelist and journalist fled to Mexico after Colombia had broken relations with Cuba and his personal friend Fidel Castro. The regime claims that the leading surrealist was merely trying to embarrass them by seeking refuge in the Mexican embassy in Colombia. But Garcia Marquez says, "I am shy and I look aggressive." Some countrymen offer a more illuminating possibility...