Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union has made quite a splash in Washington, tirelessly campaigning for more access to classified information and for more student financial...
...pornography activists, the court unanimously struck down a major portion of Congress's 1988 dial-a-porn law. The statute, which had sought to criminalize "obscene or indecent" telephone-message services, had been enacted at the urging of parents' groups that complained the racy phone communications were too easily accessible to children. But last week the court insisted on maintaining the distinction between obscenity, which may be prohibited, and indecency, which may not. Justice Byron White declared that banning indecent but not obscene telephone calls for adults went beyond what was needed to protect children from such messages. He said...
...Iranian official to visit Moscow since the days of the Shah. In two meetings, the two sides signed four agreements providing for, among other things, a new rail link between Soviet Turkmenistan and the northern Iranian city of Mashhad, which would help fulfill a longtime Moscow goal of greater access to the Persian Gulf. There were discussions, but no final accord, on reopening a gas pipeline from Iran to Soviet Transcaucasia, which was shut down in 1980. Moscow also announced that it would aid Iran in "strengthening ((its)) defense capability," but provided no details. The U.S. has made clear...
...asylum seekers "failed to prove they had a justifiable fear of persecution," although several of them bore torture marks inflicted in Sri Lankan prisons. Panicked, the refugees stripped off their clothes on $ Heathrow's tarmac and refused to budge. A court injunction eventually forced authorities to grant the Tamils access to legal representation. Most of them remain in Britain awaiting a final disposition of their cases, but some were sent home; five of those sent away have filed appeals from overseas. Last March a British Immigration Appeals judge held that they had been illegally repatriated and had been detained...
...wrecking him financially by arbitrarily keeping him from liquidating his team a player at a time. Judge McGarr ruled, "So broad and unfettered was the commissioner's discretion intended to be that the owners provided no right of appeal, and even took the extreme step of foreclosing their own access to the courts...