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...member of a remarkable political family; after choking on a sandwich; in Hong Kong, where he was on legal business. The son of a Liberal statesman, Dingle became an M.P. at 26. He swung to the Labor bench in 1956 and served as Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Solicitor General. When his younger brothers Hugh and Michael also became prominent in government, Tory critics joked that they were the country's "three Left feet...
Perhaps we should not be too shocked at the decision by a court that still bears so clearly the mark of former president Richard M. Nixon. We are, however, both surprised and disappointed by the Carter administration's stand on this issue. The Solicitor General's office has failed to rally to the press's defense, bolstering instead the search power of law enforcement officials...
...participants of "violating every standard of the community under the guise of art." The Providence police apparently shared his indignation. Under a new antipornography law that had been signed the very day the show opened, the cops raided the place and seized some 43 drawings and paintings. City Solicitor Ronald Glantz hoped, however, that he would not have to prosecute. Said he: "The whole thing is absurd. The law is unconstitutional. We'd have to put shorts on half of the city's statues...
...council also resolved to ask the City Solicitor to research the legality and feasibility of establishing a public testing service for non-confiscated...
...more serious incident, on Jan. 9, 1973, the Mounties broke into a Parti Québ&3233;cois office in Montreal. According to federal Solicitor General Francis Fox, the Mounties lifted computer tapes containing the P.Q.'s membership list and financial records and copied the documents before surreptitiously returning them. It seemed a pointless burglary, since the Mounties apparently learned nothing that they could not have found out as easily by perfectly legal means. What enraged the federal opposition parties, and dismayed Trudeau's Liberals, was not simply that the Mounties had operated beyond the law but that...