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Extraordinary Times. The most controversial provision would authorize federal agents to conduct "no-knock" raids on suspected drug caches. As originally drafted, the section would have permitted authorities to break into a home without warning or identification if they believed that a more polite entry might allow suspects to destroy evidence. Facing opposition to the entire section, Senator Robert Griffin won its inclusion by altering its language but not its impact. The new wording requires that agents applying to a court for "no-knock" authorization must convince a judge that the drugs will definitely be destroyed. Still, the provision raises...
...give us all that detail for free," the jurist told high-priced Writer Norman Mailer. The amateur boxer and ring buff later summed up Hoffman as a verbal sparring partner: "A fast-moving featherweight who never gets his left out of your face. But he'd never knock anybody...
Dylan has since left his house there and moved to Greenwich Village. But The Band plays on in Woodstock. "We didn't just knock off," Robbie tells it. "We were doing some things up here. But we weren't out there in front any more. We were fooling with film and stuff and making tapes and hanging out and doing this?what we do up here ?well, just living...
...face possible $10,000 fines and five-year jail terms for violating a law of doubtful constitutionality. Or witness what seems to radicals?and many others?to be a systematic police slaughter of Black Panther leaders. They point to John Mitchell's wiretapping policies, preventive-detention program and no-knock raiding techniques. They see harsh drug laws as political instruments by which Middle America means to destroy dissent and counterculture. In Danville, Va., last July, an 80-year-old judge sentenced a 20-year-old student to 20 years for possession of marijuana...
Because it is intended primarily to knock down other jets, notably the agile Soviet MIG-23, the Air Force calls its forthcoming F-15 an "air superiority" fighter. The designation is doubly meaningful to U.S. aircraft firms. They are finding that big Pentagon contracts, once frequent, are becoming frustratingly scarce. Thus, when the McDonnell Douglas Co. of St. Louis finally won the F-15 award over two competitors last week, it was a considerable coup for the No. 1 firm in the industry since the 1967 merger of McDonnell Co. and Douglas Aircraft. The contract calls for design and production...