Word: warranting
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These words are taken from a collection of ardently feminist writings that "outrage public morals" and "abuse the freedom of the press." That at least is the charge brought against the three women authors of the collection when the censors in Portugal issued a warrant for their arrest and banned their book, New Portuguese Letters, a commentary on the lot of women in machismo-oriented Portugal. To feminists round the world, as well as to champions of a free press, the police action against the Portuguese women in June 1972 was an outrage that slowly became the focus...
However necessary Coop expansion into non-student areas may be, it inevitably creates resentment among students who feel that the Coop is thereby neglecting the quality of service in student-oriented areas. Complaints about textbook service were frequent enough this year to warrant the Coop's publishing a pamphlet explaining how faculty members could expedite textbook orders and help improve textbook service...
...dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.'" So wrote Justice Lewis Powell, a Nixon appointee, in the 1972 Supreme Court opinion that forbade the wiretapping of domestic organizations and individuals without a court warrant. Ironically, the court issued its decree just two days after the Watergate conspirators were caught with electronic surveillance equipment in the headquarters of the Democratic National Party-a legitimate political dissent organization if there ever...
...domestic enemies. This was the interpretation of the law that allowed the phones of Henry Kissinger's aides to be tapped. Last June, however, in an 8-to-0 decision, the Supreme Court held that such taps could not be used against pure-domestic political "suspects" without a warrant...
...citizen from wiretapping. In response, Congress enacted the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, the first federal statute legalizing electronic eavesdropping in investigations of such crimes as treason, robbery, murder as well as bribery and narcotics trafficking-provided that the Government first obtains a court warrant. Since then, local versions of the federal law have been passed in 21 states...