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...long.) Here Chan wobbles on the top of a train; there Khan tries to leap into a house and bounces like a tennis ball off the window Chan has just closed. In another very funny bit, Chan, undercover with the help of an artificially effusive family, leads an escaped convict to hide in a village that he must pretend he grew...
...justified. A suit seeking to put the Laborers under government control could have dragged through the courts for years. Even then, it is not certain that Coia would have been ousted. "It is not a crime to be controlled by the Mob," prosecutor Coffey points out. To convict Coia under federal racketeering statutes, the government would have to prove that he committed two felonies as part of a criminal conspiracy. So far, "we don't have enough evidence," says an FBI agent...
...tribunal at the Hague seeks to convict the little people while the guilty leaders who gave the orders for genocide go on as if nothing had happened. Wars will continue until all nations renounce the use or threat of war. CHARLES QUIVEY Parma, Minnesota...
ACQUITTED. DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, 67, the right-to-die activist; of common-law assisted-suicide charges; in Pontiac, Michigan. The jury's not-guilty verdicts marked prosecutors' third failure to convict "Dr. Death...
These behind-the-scenes apparatchiks may be the most guilty and have the best evidence of Milosevic's personal culpability. Yet the tribunal is unlikely ever to get them to court unless one sells the others out. "The witnesses who could really convict Milosevic still work for him," says a human-rights analyst. "They owe him everything." Even then to convict the men at the top, says U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights John Shattuck, "you need direct evidence of their complicity in specific crimes." Leading the war is not enough...