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...court on corruption charges, the country's highest-ranking official ever to do so. The three-time PM is accused of rigging the privatization of a state-owned bank in favor of a businessman with alleged ties to the Mafia. He faces a minimum of 10 years in jail if found guilty. Taking Their Seats IRAQ The Shi'ite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance was declared the winner of the Jan. 30 election with 48% of the vote, gaining 140 of 275 seats in the new National Assembly. The Kurdish Alliance came second with 26%, followed by interim Prime Minister Iyad...
...officer during a tangled political dustup in the summer of 2003. TIME sought to quash the subpoena through most of 2004, but last week a federal appeals court ruled that Cooper and Judith Miller of the New York Times must testify or face civil contempt penalties, which usually means jail. Both TIME and the New York Times will appeal the ruling, going all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary...
...case pits two centuries-old truth-seeking institutions--the press and the grand jury--against each other in a battle with political and national security implications. Both Cooper and Miller are prepared to go to jail rather than reveal their sources' identities. Cooper, 42, has covered politics for more than a decade and has served as deputy chief of TIME's Washington bureau. "Protecting confidences is something that society grants to pastors, doctors, spouses, lawyers, even social workers," notes Cooper. "We believe journalists have a similar privilege." Miller, 57 and a 28-year veteran of the Times, argues that confidential...
...resisters. His critics, who have no sympathy for volunteer soldiers suddenly opposed to combat, prefer terms like coward and traitor. But now that Anderson has been AWOL for more than 30 days, he is known in the U.S. military as a deserter, facing the possibility of years in jail. (No deserter during wartime has received the stiffest punishment, execution, since the last days of World...
...many years. Still, for the first time since the Vietnam War, when Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made his country a "refuge from militarism" for tens of thousands of U.S. draft dodgers, some disaffected young Americans are seeking sanctuary up north, risking permanent exile from their native land--or jail time back in it. A newfangled underground railroad has even sprung up, started by a group of religious, union and peace activists to help American soldiers get settled in Canada...