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Washington-based MCI Communications took on giant American Telephone and Telegraph in a courtroom more than a decade ago, charging it with monopoly practices that prevented MCI from competing equally in the domestic long-distance phone market. MCI won that action, along with damages of $600 million that were trebled by federal law to $1.8 billion. But AT&T appealed and won a dismissal of the award. Last week a new trial involving the old adversaries began. Purpose: to set once again the amount of damages AT&T should...
...confrontation last week came on the 17th day of Mehmet Ali Agca's rambling testimony against seven men he says conspired with him to shoot Pope John Paul II in 1981. In his first testimony in the Rome courtroom, Bulgarian Defendant Sergei Antonov flatly denied that he drove gunmen to St. Peter's Square for the assassination attempt. Furthermore, Antonov asserted, he had "never met the person who accuses...
...under house arrest since 1982. He stated, "For two years and seven months I have been away from my homeland, my family, my friends, my colleagues because of [these] absurd, slanderous accusations." Agca retorted that the Bulgarian "has conducted a purely political speech to touch the sentiments of this courtroom...
...bombing raid you can lose your life," said retired Air Force Major General Richard Collins, a former Viet Nam combat pilot. "All you can lose in this courtroom is your reputation." But the two-star general's honor remained intact last week, when a Florida jury acquitted him on federal charges of embezzling money from a secret military fund that he administered in 1975-78. The Justice Department had accused Collins, 55, of tampering with the interest on $450,000 in U.S. Government money while he transferred the sum from one Swiss bank account to another. The jury rejected...
Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter professor of law, moved from the classroom to the courtroom this week to defend Betty Loren-Maltese, a former town president in Illinois with alleged mafia connections...