... 1963 (45 years ago today), Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations, said at the Security Council (right) that his country opposed sanctions against South Africa on the ground that sanctions were "bad law and bad policy," but added that the United States would stop selling military matériel to the apartheid regime by year's end.... 1984, a British businessman won his legal action when the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Malone v. United Kingdom that governmental tapping of his phone constituted a breach of Article 8 of Europe's human rights convention, which guarantees that "[e]veryone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence."
