Word: halt
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Kaczynski Stops His Trial Theodore Kaczynski brought the Unabomber trial to a halt moments after it began Monday, by requesting to make a statement. All parties immediately retreated to the judge?s chambers. Full Story Take our Kaczynski poll
...will be raised calling for the presidential succession to be clarified; at the moment the only mechanism is essentially for the president to declare himself incapable of governing. Yeltsin's closest aides will circle the wagons around him, forward movement in politics and economic change will come to a halt, and the debilitating struggle to succeed Yeltsin will gather force...
...Jackal Our continuing coverage of the international terrorist trial. Monday: Carlos' lawyers try to halt the trial...
PARIS: As the trial of suspected terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez ? better known as Carlos the Jackal ? enters its second action-packed week, defense lawyers are battling desperately to stop it coming to a halt altogether. The highlights...
...looking for a way to move against the clubs. Federal sources tell TIME that the Administration may try to shut down some high-volume cannabis clubs under the seldom-invoked civil provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act, which allows the Justice Department to ask a federal judge to halt a drug-distribution operation. The advantages of this approach are that the case is decided by a judge, not a jury, and the government need not prove the club's proprietors acted with criminal intent. A club operator who persists in peddling pot could then face a fine or imprisonment...