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Conceding that the initial arrests were legal, lawyers for both defendants asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the searches were constitutional. Last week the Burger court answered yes in a decisive 6-to-3 vote, thereby adding another stiff bristle to its law-and-order reputation...
...Stiff Belt. In-town businesses catering to people forced to stay close to home are booming. Restaurants in Swiss cities report increases of 10% to 40% in Sunday sales. Sunday attendance at West German movie theaters is up by around 30%. Department stores are peddling record quantities of liquor-everything from local schnapps to $20 imported bottles of American sour mash-to Germans who apparently find the prospect of staying home Sunday unbearable without a stiff belt. With weekend accident rates declining, insurance companies say they are pondering pressure to lower rates. Repair shops, crammed for the past several years...
...landlord class dictated harsh terms to their tenants. The peasants had to pay all production costs and turn over 50 to 70 per cent of their crops to their landlords. In addition, the colonial government ate away at the remainder of peasant production with a stiff new set of taxes. In traditional Vietnam the Nguyen government had taken an estimated 6 per cent of the peasant's income in taxes. The French added stiff head and alcohol taxes and hiked this to 10 to 20 per cent. Widescale growing corruption among both French and Vietnamese officials in the colonial government...
...Peters and Randy Buckley placed a convincing first and second in the 600-yard run. Craig Butler bested some stiff competition in the 60-yard high hurdle, taking first over B.C.'s Bill Mahoney and Kerry Leppo...
While the new code legalizes so-called "soft porn," it bans hard-core films and literature depicting acts of sadism, bestiality and child molesting, and punishes what it calls "glorification of brutality and incitement to racial hatred on television" with stiff fines and prison terms of up to a year. The sale of soft porn will be restricted to persons over 18, and banned from places frequented by minors. This means that public posters advertising sex films, and shops displaying sexual devices, will have to get off the streets within 14 months. Germany's mass-circulation picture magazines will...