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...Mugabe angrily told Parliament last week that he planned soon to announce new measures that would be "extralegal" and "extremely harsh" to stop the banditry. As Nkomo listened quietly, Mugabe warned: "These men are ZAPU and the weapons are from ZAPU." Mugabe said the government had been far too lenient on ZAPU. Declared he: "We may demand two ears for one ear and two eyes for an eye." The swords are drawn and it will be a luta continua [constant battle] to the finish." -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Marsh Clark/Harare
...case is hardly the first to involve a crime that crosses state borders. Moreover, the Federal Government sometimes brings charges in civil rights cases, such as those involving police brutality, when it believes local juries have been too lenient. But different states do not seem to have prosecuted in the same case, in part no doubt to avoid the extra work load. In the Heath case, however, Becky's father wanted to see his daughter's killers get the death penalty, and he urged the second prosecution. William Benton, the district attorney in Phenix City...
Though Reagan Administration critics quickly attacked the new rules as too lenient to Big Business, there seems little likelihood that the regulations will unleash a new wave of Wall Street merger mania. They actually just put down in a more formal fashion the policy followed by the Reagan Administration during the past year and a half...
...permits the debtor to keep certain assets for his own survival: up to a $7,500 equity in his house, for example, and up to a $1,200 interest in a car. The list of exemptions even includes up to $500 worth of jewelry. Some states are still more lenient; California allows the head of a household to keep up to $45,000 in his home. On the other hand, the debtor cannot again declare insolvency for six years...
...Justices had little in the court's past to guide them. In 1954 they appointed a special counsel when a challenge to the Virgin Islands' lenient divorce laws struck them as halfhearted. And the court has occasionally appointed lawyers for indigent or inadequately represented litigants, as it did in 1963 when Abe Fortas was asked to argue Clarence Gideon's landmark right-to-counsel case. But such examples are scarcely parallel. In the current tax cases, says Democratic Congressman Don Edwards of California, "the question is: 'Is the Justice Department interested in enforcing civil rights...