Word: warrants
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Another amendment would allow prosecutors to introduce into federal trials evidence that had been obtained illegally without a warrant as long as law- enforcement officials seized the material "in good faith." New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the amendment had not been considered in hearings by his panel. "All day long we've been fighting the war on drugs," said he. "Now it seems that the attack is on the Constitution of the United States...
...Moscow's Lyolyas -- what few are left after years of KGB crackdowns -- carry news of dissidents, refuseniks, political prisoners, religious activists, divided families and the other sad human detritus of a totalitarian state. The news is usually depressing, time consuming to gather, and often of too little import to warrant reporting. But still it must be covered...
...statement was less a signal to Libya of imminent U.S. action than a reaffirmation of continuing policy toward Gaddafi. Although Western intelligence agencies believe they have detected new Libyan terrorist plots, the evidence is too sketchy to warrant military retaliation. Nevertheless, the President's advisers took the opportunity to remind the public, and Gaddafi, that contingency plans for Libya are always at hand...
...Rwandan government, it turns out, had different ideas. Last week it announced it had issued an arrest warrant for McGuire, who stayed on to run the camp after Fossey's death. He left Rwanda in late July, after hearing rumors of his impending arrest. A government official, Jean-Damasdene Nkezabo, disclosed that although McGuire was regarded as the "principal author of the murder," five Rwandans who had worked at the camp were being charged as accomplices. The presumed motive was the theft of scientific research that Fossey had accumulated over the years...
...made by John Stuart Mill in his 1859 essay, On Liberty: "The only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant . . . Over himself, over his own mind and body, the individual is sovereign." The framers of the U.S. Constitution seem to have had similar views in mind when they declared in the Ninth Amendment that "the enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others...