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...Financial transfers between the U.S. and Iran, except for journalists and members of the hostages' families...
...Travel by Americans to Iran, except for journalists. (At week's end Barbara Timm, mother of Hostage Kevin Hermening, defied the ban by flying to Tehran; the Administration made no effort to stop...
Another liberal group surprised by Reagan's policies was California's environmentalists. Reagan had protested that "there seems to be an organized, well-financed lobby that is determined to preserve the natural habitat and comfort of every species except man." But he established an air-resources board and gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir...
Islamic law holds "unequivocally that the restriction of the physical freedom of any human is forbidden, except where that human is personally involved in crime," Ismail R. al Faruqi wrote last January in the Pakistani Muslim journal Universal Message. "The employees of any embassy do not fall in this category." Envoys who misbehave cannot be imprisoned, only expelled or fined to pay for any property damage. He also says the imprisonment violates the Koran's declaration that "no soul can be charged with the sins of another...
Until last week, police in at least 24 states could arrest a felony suspect in his home without a warrant. No longer. In a 6-3 decision on two New York cases, the Supreme Court ruled that lawmen everywhere need warrants for such arrests, except possibly in "exigent circumstances," like hot pursuit of a criminal. Otherwise, evidence seized at the time cannot be used by the prosecution...