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...designated an enemy combatant and faced years of alleged abuse, including stress positions and extreme sleep deprivation, in the isolation of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. Eventually, a legal challenge made the government drop Padilla's enemy-combatant status, and he was permitted to face charges???conspiracy and providing aid to foreign terrorists?in federal court...
...behavior ranging from mumbled concert performances to a drug arrest in Norway, her in-laws pleaded for a public boycott of her music so that she and her equally troubled husband, Blake Fielder-Civil?currently in jail for attempting to bribe a bartender he allegedly assaulted to drop the charges???might be deprived of the income they spend getting wasted. One day in December, Winehouse wobbled out of her London home at 6 a.m. wearing only jeans, a red bra and a look of complete befuddlement. On Tuesday video of her (now blond) snorting and smoking various substances...
...Campbell has told investigators that "he [Lance] was part of it," meaning the embezzlement. Just how seriously the Senators take Campbell's charge is unclear. Campbell has refused to supply an affidavit, but has asked to appear before the committee. He has also promised to supply documentation of his charges???but by week's end had not done...
...reason enough to desist." U.C.L.A. Soviet Specialist Roman Kolkowicz argues: "The track record is deplorable. By and large, these operations have been a series of disasters." Adds Eugene Skolnikoff, director of M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies: "The resulting scandals provide grist for attacks on the U.S., retroactively validate charges???true or false?that the U.S. makes a habit of overthrowing governments, and even exacerbate domestic distrust of public officials...
...indictment, coupled with the Justice Department's refusal to amplify, has fueled the suspicions of skeptics, although some who initially dismissed the indictments as some mad joke now take them more gravely. In the New York Times, Tom Wicker argued that "if the Government cannot sustain these serious charges???better, for instance, than it was able to justify those against the Chicago Seven?it will provide another shocking example of the kind of official hysteria that so often damages individuals and clouds the public climate." Later the Times noted editorially: "Reason must await the facts...
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