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When the national legislature handed down criminal charges in February against former Dictator Luis Garcia Meza, citing acts of sedition, armed revolt and assassination, many hoped that the anticipated supreme court trial would clean up the image of a nation tarnished by a flagrant cocaine trade, official corruption and worse. Last week, after three brief sessions, the trial ground to a halt. As the civilian government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro stood by, the twelve-member supreme court proved unable to come up with a quorum of judges to reconvene the case. Said a well-placed diplomatic observer: "People...
There was, however, little jubilation at the measure. The government's sincerity about easing restrictions immediately came into question when it ordered three CBS newsmen expelled from the country the same day. The charge: "flagrant contempt" of a court order banning the presence of television cameras at a mass funeral for 17 of the 23 blacks killed during four days of violence in the black township of Alexandra, outside of Johannesburg. The evictions, said CBS Johannesburg Bureau Manager William Mutschmann, one of the three newsmen, would "severely curtail CBS's ability to cover the South African story...
Three CBS television staffers were ordered out of the country. The government accused them of filming a mass funeral of Black riot victims in "flagrant contempt" of a court prohibition...
Home Minister Stoffel Botha said that, in shooting and broadcasting film of the funeral Wednesday in the black township of Alexandra, the network acted in "flagrant contempt" of a court verdict upholding a police ban on cameras at the scene. CBS and other networks had asked the court to cancel the prohibition...
...Thursday--"Yale Mary", Jean-Luc Godard's controversial sequel to last year's hit "Hail Mary" opens amid virulent protest at the Orson Welles Theatre. The film, featuring Eli Jodie Foster as an undergraduate English major and part-time mother of God, is condemned by President Bok as "flagrant Yale propaganda." Bok adds, "Besides, Princeton is the only Ivy school that can boast a celebrated virgin...