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heavy student turnout at the University of Michigan helped save Ann Arbor's lenient marijuana law last week, but at a widely publicized university Hash Bash on April 2. only 25 smokers gathered to celebrate the municipality's lax drug laws...
...military prosecutor reduced the charges against Publisher Nadi to "encouraging people to act against the law," and asked for a prison term of 2½ instead of six years. The military court trying Actress Yenersu referred the case to a civil tribunal, which is likely to be more lenient. Evren, it seems, is learning that respect for civil liberties is a cornerstone of democracy...
Japanese tax laws are fairly lenient. Doctors, for example, are allowed to deduct 72% of their incomes, and the first $13,000 invested in postal-savings accounts earn tax-free interest. But whenever the authorities start investigating, they make sad discoveries. An audit of 50 people who had registered new luxury cars worth $40,000 or more, for instance, found that eleven reported having no income at all. Of 116 cram schools that help Tokyo children pass their exams, 109 were discovered to be concealing income. And last week the national Tax Administration Agency said it had audited 24 prosperous...
...weight charts are lenient - too much so, say some doctors
Ershad has promised to return the country to parliamentary democracy, though no timetable has been announced. Although he was once considered relatively lenient with students and the press, he has, however, cracked down on anyone suspected of subversion. Since the beginning of the year, more than 200 dissidents have been jailed. Last week 30 top opposition leaders were arrested at the home of Kamal Hossain, a former Foreign Minister and the author of the country's constitution. All were charged with holding an unlawful political meeting and encouraging student unrest...