Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courtroom where South Africa's harsh justice was meted out last week was the same in which, 17 years earlier, ANC Leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for acts of sabotage, including the 1962 bombing of a Cabinet minister's office in Pretoria. The charges against last week's prisoners were graver-an index of how the ANC, long ago an advocate of peaceful change, now reaches for the gun. Moise was charged with the 1980 bombing of fuel storage tanks at South Africa's SASOL coal liquefaction plant, the most spectacular guerrilla attack...
Thus ended five weeks of financial maneuvering, courtroom battles, noisy public name-calling and political infighting, all aimed at acquiring the nation's ninth largest oil company. Du Pont had won Conoco by outbidding Seagram, the world's biggest liquor distiller, and Mobil Oil, the second largest American petroleum firm. "There's never been a merger contest like it," said Joseph Perella, a member of the team of investment bankers from First Boston that advised Du Pont on its winning strategy...
...accused of forcing the women into a car after a Boston party, driving her to a North Shore beach house, and then compelling her repeatedly to engage in sex. They were acquitted of kidnapping charges, but found guilty of rape and sentenced to six months in prison, amid a courtroom full of cameras and weeping mothers...
...final pressure point is the courtroom, where judges and juries have rarely imposed stiff punishment on these largely middleclass, otherwise law-abiding defendants. RID has now set up a program in New York called Court-watch to study each judge's treatment of drunk drivers. If the judges are not tough enough, they risk RID's opposition on Election Day. Aiken claims that her group was primarily responsible for defeating a judge whose 75% conviction rate seemed...
Judge Walter E. Skinner did say, however, that he would try to reach a decision on the injunction request by the middle of next week, and, as he left the courtroom, added that under federal regulations he could "not grant a temporary restraining order" simply as a matter of convenience. "There are very strict rules on granting" the orders, he said...