Word: heralds
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...defense argued that the article never mentioned Singapore. The prosecution insisted that ``reasonable readers'' would know exactly what the piece was all about. In the end, a Singapore court last week found a U.S. scholar and executives of the International Herald Tribune guilty of contempt for impugning the integrity of the judiciary. Judge Goh Joon Seng imposed a $6,900 fine on economist Christopher Lingle and smaller levies on the newspaper's publisher, its Asia editor, distributor and local printer...
...dispute arose last October, when the Herald Tribune, which is headquartered in Paris and jointly owned by the Washington Post Co., the New York Times Co. and Whitney Communications, published an article by Lingle on its opinion page. Lingle, then a senior fellow in European studies at the National University of Singapore, wrote that ``intolerant regimes in the region reveal considerable ingenuity in their methods of suppressing dissent.'' Among several methods he listed was ``relying upon a compliant judiciary to bankrupt opposition politicians.'' The statement did not mention any country by name...
Michael Richardson, the Herald Tribune's Asia editor, told the court he thought the article referred to China, North Korea and other communist or military regimes. Judge Goh, however, said he had ``no doubt'' that the reference was to Singapore and found the defendants, including Herald Tribune Publisher Richard McClean and a local printer, Singapore Press holdings, guilty of contempt for ``scandalizing the judiciary...
...Associated Press quoted Weld as denying the Herald's report. The newspaper cited draft board records from Long Island, where Weld is from, which said the governor was four times certified as IA--available service...
...terms of activity, there is more to his record than you would expect," Lew Brodsky, assistant director for Selective Service public affairs, told the Herald. "He was definitely going through processes most others of his time were...