Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...promoters of a three-day rock music festival on New York's Randall's Island last weekend found themselves agreeing to allow radical speakers platform time before each performance. They are also turning over an unannounced proportion of their proceeds to several diverse radical youth groups. Explained a spokesman for the promoters, Brave New World Productions Inc.: "The music business and producers must relate to politics and the youth culture...
...blackmailers. Critics insist the measure's inclusive language might permit scrutiny of the traditionally privileged conversations between lawyers and clients, doctors and patients, or priests and penitents. Under another provision, policemen could enter private homes without knocking if they had reason to believe that a warning would allow suspects to destroy evidence or prepare for a shootout...
Hickel, though, is still an Alaskan and well aware of his state's economic anguish. With his tacit blessing, Alaska Governor Keith Miller clumsily tried to move ahead on the $120 million access road. He first got his legislature to approve a bill that would allow the state to build the road and then be repaid by the pipeline consortium. Not wishing to risk stockholder suits, the consortium turned down the idea. In order to reintroduce his plan. Miller asked the legislature to return to Juneau early this month for a special session. But when the legislators discovered that...
Federal Government is funneling a record $268 million to local lawmen this year?four times last year's outlay. More controversially, Congress and state legislatures are considering measures that would allow police to expand wiretapping and enter suspicious dwellings without knocking. In most areas, public opinion has seldom been so pro-cop. A recent Gallup poll revealed that a majority of Americans view crime control as their No. 1 priority, and even longtime dissenters are beginning to have second thoughts. Though many radicals still think of police as "pigs"?with some justification in a number of cities ?liberals...
...There seemed no point in registering a vote against the high quotas. Otherwise, the whaling nations would just go and do what they wanted without taking heed of any restrictions at all, which would be much worse." As it is, the major whalers-particularly the Russians-steadfastly refuse to allow international observers to inspect their operations, so no one is sure that quotas are not sometimes exceeded...