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Principles like equality before the law for both Gazans and West Bankers have been widely violated by Arafat's regime. Two of the three men involved in the alleged roadside sex attack walked out of jail after just a couple of days. They have yet to be tried. Arafat is aware of the tension--he's hardly been to the West Bank during the intifadeh--but he has shown little inclination to combat the problem...
...CARLOS MENEM, 70, flamboyant reformist President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999; on charges of leading a conspiracy to smuggle 6,500 tons of arms to Croatia and Ecuador while in office; in Buenos Aires. The first elected Argentine President ever arrested, Menem is too old to go to jail; under Argentine law, suspects 70 or older are kept under house arrest...
...unconstitutional search (Ferguson v. City of Charleston) and, in another 6-3 decision, that police roadblocks using drug-sniffing dogs were also verboten. On the other hand, the justices found, 5-4, that it was not an unconstitutional seizure to arrest someone, handcuff her and ship her off to jail for driving without a seat belt when the maximum penalty for the offense was a $50 fine (Atwater v. City of Lago Vista...
...Before declaring a hunger strike from his jail cell, Rev. Al Sharpton...
...trouble with the law for stealing, and was offered the option of treatment. It sounded a lot better than five to 10 years in the penitentiary. One night I went to an Oscars party and I knew that if I got caught drinking, I could go to jail. Knowing that full well I walked into the party - my friend offered me a Martini, I said, 'Yeah,' and I got loaded. That night, having learned a little bit about alcoholism at treatment, I started to see the patterns inside myself. That was the last night I drank...