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...Swiss federal court ruled in December that the money should be freed in one year unless Marcos is indicted in the Philippines on criminal charges linked to the accounts. A day after announcing that Marcos and her three children could come home, Manila filed 29 charges of tax fraud against the family, including 11 against Imelda...
...computerized data business has been filled with a lot less profit than promise, largely because of consumer indifference. The growing list of disappointed entries includes ventures backed by Knight-Ridder, Times Mirror and Chemical Banking. Despite their advantage in size and expertise, say analysts, the newly freed Baby Bells could join the list...
South African President F.W. de Klerk claims he has freed more than 1,000 prisoners and only a few remain in jail because of a dispute over the exact definition of a "political" prisoner. The A.N.C. insists that hundreds are still behind bars. Officials in Washington said last week that the Administration will make its own decision on the question, but will probably withhold its announcement on lifting sanctions until after the A.N.C.'s national conference next week...
...beaten, shot and then thrown into the Tallahatchie River in 1955. An all-white jury acquitted two white men of the killing. In 1963 Henry's N.A.A.C.P. associate, Medgar Evers, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson. His accused murderer, Byron de la Beckwith, was freed when all-white juries failed to reach a verdict. Now the state, seeking to atone for old wrongs, is trying to extradite him from Tennessee to try him again for the killing. Henry himself was arrested several times for his civil rights activities, and was once chained and shackled...
Infomercials got their initial boost in 1984, when the Federal Communications Commission freed local stations from limits on the amount of commercial time they could air. Hundreds of local broadcast stations, as well as such national cable networks as Lifetime and Black Entertainment Television, now carry at least some infomercials, usually in the late-night hours. For TV stations, these program-length ads provide a tidy source of revenue from little watched time periods. (Half an hour of postmidnight airtime can bring in between $5,000 and $20,000 in big-city markets.) For an advertiser with a steam iron...