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...that, among other things, increased the income tax rate, set the death penalty for certain crimes, including kidnaping and heroin dealing, subjected some religious groups to the draft, and ordered Saigon's 40 newspapers to deposit 20 million piasters ($46,-512) each as security against government fines or libel suits...
Even at the end, when Irving pleads guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud, forgery and perjury (by his own account, he is also guilty of theft, plagiarism and libel), he still seems to believe that he hasn't done anything wrong: "I had demonstrated a cool contempt for the underpinnings of American society...
...eventual sacrifice. Evidently girding himself for political battles to come, he acquired emergency powers last June, and last week decreed a set of harsh new restrictions on the freedom of the South Vietnamese press. Saigon's 27 dailies must henceforth deposit $50,000 as security against libel suits or government fines. The effect is that about half of them-and most of the opposition newspapers-will be forced to close...
...haired onetime sex symbol, doe-eyed Hedy Lamarr, claims that the book billed as her "autobiography," Ecstasy and Me, My Life as a Woman, is "an obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet" treatment of her life. So for the second time she slapped a libel suit on its publisher and two coauthors, whom she accuses of distorting interviews with her -this time for $21 million. Still no cigar. The New York Court of Appeals has dismissed the case-not because the book isn't obscene, shocking, scandalous, etc., but because her lawyers failed...
...former.) The popular version of the story, accepted by those raving romantics Schiller and Donizetti, portrays Mary as a high-brogue Joan of Arc and Elizabeth as the Wicked Witch of the West. The new versions, sometimes wildly inaccurate in other ways, do at least correct that longstanding libel against poor Bess. The truth is that Mary probably was an accomplice in the murder of the philandering Darnley and that she constantly schemed for Elizabeth's death. She was a royal piece of baggage who royally deserved to have head and body separated long before Elizabeth signed her death...