Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finding the officers innocent, Dumbutshena said their stories of mistreatment had "the ring of truth," while the government had mustered "very little incriminating evidence." Dumbutshena, however, is powerless to dismiss the new government detention order. It will confine the men indefinitely while a tribunal evaluates the government's case for jailing them. The order continues a disturbing trend in Zimbabwe: in the past year, eight other people found not guilty of security-related crimes have nevertheless been rearrested without charge. Increasingly, it seems, Mugabe is uncomfortable leaving justice in the hands of the courts...
...national groups only indirectly. In Massachusetts, a group called MassDIVEST, a coalition of local groups, spearheaded a recent successful lobbying effort to secure legislation in the Massachusetts House. The House voted to completely divest all state pension funds from companies operating in South Africa. Officials of the organization dismiss the importance of national groups in the success, saying it was primarily a local effort...
Jackson becomes bitter when other black leaders, those he feels are content to serve as "trustees of the ghetto," dismiss him as opportunistic. "Part of our problem now is that some of our leaders do not seize opportunities," he says. "I was trained by Martin to be an opportunist...
...will be able to invest more funds in new technology. In a speech to the Central Committee last month, the Soviet leader pointedly criticized plant officials who were reluctant to modernize machinery because they feared that it would cause them to miss their production quotas and force them to dismiss workers...
...Cambridge court this week decided to dismiss all criminal charges in six months against a Summer School student who was arrested three weeks ago on charges that he stole a bicycle and damaged several street-lights in Harvard Square. The decision is contingent upon his good behavior...