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...long-standing practices used in standard policing. Detractors might be hard-pressed to explain why, prior to the Act, authorities could apply for a roving wiretap (allowing surveillance over all a suspect’s communications) if a drug dealer switched cell-phones but could not if a suspected terrorist did the same. Similarly, the controversial “sneak and peek” provision of the Act—which grants warrants allowing officials to search a location without a terror suspect’s knowledge—seems less controversial when one realizes that this procedure was already...
...father, who died in the attacks on the Twin Towers. By the mere virtue of the book’s “topic,” Foer has taken his place in American literary history by joining the handful of fiction writers willing to wrestle with the 9/11 terrorist attacks in their work...
TIME'S stories on the climax of the Beirut hostage crisis [NATION, July 8] were exceptional. But you failed to mention one possible method of preventing terrorist acts against Americans in the Middle East: travel to the region must be severely restricted, if not stopped altogether. David S. Draper Arcata, Calif...
...Administration's increasingly tough words about terrorism have seemed up until now just that: words. Last week, however, the U.S. invoked for the first time a section of a 1984 anti-terrorist law to help track down the gunmen who sprayed bullets into a San Salvador caf last month, killing four Marines and two other U.S. citizens. Proclaimed the State Department: "The U.S. Government announces a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to the effective prosecution and punishment of those responsible for the murders...
...Royal Albert Hall, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke angrily of a newly "fashionable heresy," that "if you feel sufficiently strongly about some particular issue, be it nuclear weapons, racial discrimination or animal liberation, you are entitled to claim superiority to the law and are therefore absolved." Thatcher argued that terrorists were increasingly active, in part, because news attention encouraged them. The P.M. told the lawyers, to repeated applause, that reporters should voluntarily refrain from coverage that could boost terrorists' morale. In an obvious reference to last month's televised news conferences and interviews with American hostages in Beirut, Thatcher observed...