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...disclosure provisions of the code are stringent. To be revealed are: the source and amount of any income more than $100; the source and value of gifts over $100, and transportation, food, lodging or entertainment valued at over $250; the general amount of any financial holdings worth $1,000 or more; any debt exceeding $2,500, except home mortgages; any transaction in securities or commodities exceeding...
...that Britain has no equivalent of First Amendment guarantees of press freedom. Instead, British journalists face a daunting obstacle course of legal restrictions: 1) strict libel laws that allow even notorious public figures to win damages for disclosures that in the U.S. would not be considered actionable; 2) stringent contempt-of-court rules under which a journalist can be jailed for any original reporting about a matter that is sub judice, that is, before a court; 3) the principle of "confidence," which protects from disclosure industrial secrets and other private information that would be considered fair game...
Collectors protest that the majority of them operate ethically, and anyway they are subject to increasingly stringent state laws that have driven many strong-arm operators out of business. By one estimate, the number of collection agencies in the U.S. has been cut by 20% in the past decade, to 5,000 now. Florida, Georgia and Texas do not even allow the attachment of wages...
...unclear whether most of the unrest is being caused by last-ditch supporters of the discredited radicals or by squabbling factions trying to settle old scores with political enemies. Whatever the reason, stringent measures are being taken to suppress troublemakers, who have been denounced as "criminal gangs." Earlier Hua was forced to send 12,000 troops into Fukien province to deal with "sabotage." From Yunnan last week came stern warnings that "we must resolutely suppress the counterrevolutionaries who beat, wreck and loot...
...asylums for expressing unorthodox opinions. Hundreds have been arrested or put under constant police surveillance. Among the most recent targets is Physicist Robert Havemann, an open critic of East Germany's Communist regime. Seized late last month at his home outside East Berlin, he is being held under stringent house arrest. Another victim is a leading East German writer, Jürgen Fuchs, who disappeared without a trace after the police kidnaped him on a busy street in broad daylight...