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...Leader Robert Mugabe, meanwhile, spent most of the week with his soldiers in the Mozambican bush. Mugabe's colleagues in the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) have nothing but contempt for Muzorewa, whom they regard as inept, indecisive and thin-skinned. Scorning him as "Queen Abel," a mere figurehead, they believe he will be unable either to end the war or gain real power from the country's 212,000 whites, who retain a strong behind-scenes voice in the government and have had outright control over the army, police, civil service and judiciary for ten years. Says...
...Savannah ordered the protesters to leave. When four men refused, they were arrested by federal marshals. As the men were taken away, scores of supporters stood outside the refuge's barbed-wire fence, crying, praying and singing. The four were sentenced to 30 days in jail for criminal contempt of court. U.S. Attorney William T. Moore insisted that civil rights was not at issue. Said he: "Everybody has the same rights to the Harris Neck refuge...
...court left it up to Britain to bring its contempt law into line with the principles of a free press. There is no sanction if Britain does not, other than international embarrassment...
Final vindication for the Sunday Times came from the Court of Human Rights last week. The 11-to-9 decision stopped short of saying that Britain's law of contempt itself violates the broadly worded guarantee of free expression in the charter, which also recognizes the need to protect the "authority of the judiciary." But banning the final Thalidomide article simply was not "necessary," said the Strasbourg judges. In this case, they added, the public's right to know was more important...
...slowness of change in Britain. But after his success at Strasbourg, Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans promised to do his best to speed it along. If the Sunday Times, closed since Nov. 30 in a dispute with its printers, ever resumes publishing, Evans says he intends to challenge the contempt laws by reporting on important cases under trial...