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...forced to leave office. Now he is on trial again, accused of arranging the murder of his principal black political opponent in town. Carthan says he has been framed by the white Establishment of Tchula and Holmes County, and his case has become a cause célèbre...
...raising an equivalent of the first-prize money themselves. Similarly, when Yugoslav-born Ivo Pogorelich, 22, was eliminated before the last round of the recent Chopin competition in Warsaw, one judge, Pianist Martha Argerich, resigned in protest. The incident became a musical cause célèbre. Pogorelich's first U.S. record includes wayward but ultimately persuasive interpretations of the Chopin Funeral March sonata and six shorter pieces. Lightning tempos in some works, such as the C-sharp-minor Scherzo, display his formidable technique, while the slow E-flat Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 2, allows the pianist...
...hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israel expanded last week into an Arab cause célèbre. More than 300 Arab convicts joined the protest in five jails. A demonstration by prisoners' relatives and sympathizers in East Jerusalem degenerated into a near riot. An Arab civic organization in the city called a half-day sit-in strike in the Al Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem's sacred Muslim shrine. The reason for the agitation: the recent deaths of two Palestinian inmates who were force-fed by Israeli authorities at Nafha prison. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David...
Driven by the pressures of election-year politics, the case of Billy Carter's Libyan connections ballooned rapidly last week into a full-fledged Senate inquiry and a political cause célèbre. Operating under the most intense scrutiny by press and public since Watergate days, the Senators will try to find out why Carter accepted $220,000 from the Libyan government; what, if anything, he did in return for the money; and how he arranged a deal with an American oil company that could have -and still may-net him millions in broker's fees...
...deny any link between the release of the prisoners and the island's 41 Democratic convention delegates. Said one aide, speaking of the freed prisoners: "We didn't figure they'd been reformed ... but the fact is they are less a cause célèbre outside [of jail] than inside...