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...have called "the most hated lawyer in America," died Monday in New York of a heart attack. The radical barrister, once "special trial counsel" to Martin Luther King Jr., made a national name for himself defending the Chicago Seven and, more recently, such diverse and controversial figures as Indian activist Leonard Peltier, flag burner Gregory Johnson, mob boss John Gotti and Washington, D.C. Mayor Mayor Marion Barry. "He was definitely one of the leading left-of-center lawyers in this century," says legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "His cases showed the country that it was divided on many issues...
...June 19, Harry Wu, the human-rights activist who spent 19 years in Chinese prisons and is now an American citizen, had been arrested by the Chinese on charges of espionage, and he came to symbolize the increasingly strained relationship between China and the U.S. The Clinton Administration knew that after a four-hour trial on Wednesday, Wu was sentenced to a jail term of 15 years and expulsion from the country, but his sudden departure startled just about everyone, including Peter Tarnoff, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs who was heading to Beijing with Wu high...
Meanwhile, Louis's scientific and activist legacy is carried on by son Richard and daughter-in-law Meave. Among Rich ard's major finds are further evidence of Homo habilis and, with Alan Walker in 1984, "Turkana Boy," a 1.6 million-year-old skeleton of a strapping, adolescent Homo erectus. As director of the Kenya Wildlife Service from 1989 to 1994, Richard revitalized the country's national parks and deterred poachers, but he made political enemies in the process. As combative and tough as his father, he has survived a kidney transplant and the loss of both legs below...
...seemingly radical change, she is in the process of compounding the image problems she has already created for herself. She seems enthusiastic about the Operation Rescue family into which she has been reborn, yet tries to satiate the disappointed pro-choice groups by saying that she is an antiabortion activist only in cases of women trying to abort after the first trimester. As McCorvey will learn, though, baptism into the ranks of Operation Rescue will not make first trimester abortion rights activists welcome her with open arms...
...human rights by CIA assets was less than endemic. In Latin America, however, where state security apparatuses are notorious for incorrigible corruption and brutality, many observers--including some middle-of-the-road members of Congress--believe a que sera attitude is insufficient. As a case in point, human-rights activist Ann Manuel cites the CIA's liaison with Honduras' infamous Battalion 316 during the years when the country was considered an essential anti-Sandinista bulwark. "For four years," she says, "you had U.S. training of a special-intelligence unit, specifically instructing them not to torture, yet they systematically tortured...