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...refusal to name the defendant is a novel idea, and one that is generating intense interest among lawyers. Our legal system is built on the assumption that justice should be impartially meted out and, thus, blind. But to insist that a case could be discussed and tried without the prosecutors knowing the identity the defendant is unfair. How are they supposed to fight a shadow...
Commission members insist that the report is "party blind," but the project is clearly a reaction to the heavy-handed news management practiced by the Reagan Administration. Reagan has held fewer press conferences than any other TV-era President -- an average of about six a year, compared with 22 1/2 for John F. Kennedy -- and informal access to him has been tightly restricted. "Shouting questions above the roar of helicopter engines just does not make it," says NBC News Washington bureau chief Robert McFarland...
...obvious partner is Tehiya, an extremist party that says what Prime Minister Shamir may only think. It now holds four seats and may win as many as seven. "We want annexation," declares Yuval Ne'eman, party leader and director of the Israeli Space Agency. At a minimum, Tehiya would insist that Shamir launch a new wave of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and promise in writing never to approach a negotiating table with a land deed in his back pocket...
Although the pact would grant the Tamils some self-rule by combining Sri Lanka's northern and eastern provinces, where they are in the majority, the Tigers insist that it does not go far enough. Sinhalese extremists led by the People's Liberation Front (J.V.P.) object that the accord gives away too much. . The two chief candidates campaigning to replace retiring President Junius Jayewardene, 82, in a December vote are opponents of the agreement, and have vowed to send the 70,000 Indian troops home...
...Philippine government has filed 39 civil suits against Marcos, seeking to collect $96.7 billion in damages. But no criminal charges have been filed there because officials fear the deposed leader would insist on his constitutional right to return to the country to face his accusers in court...