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Montand might as well have said that Ripple had been designated the official French wine, for the Palais audience immediately erupted in derisive whistles and howls. Catherine Deneuve, who presented the award, pleaded futilely for the mob to give the director a chance to defend his honor. But the catcalls delighted Pialat. "If you don't like me," he proclaimed, "I can tell you, I don't like you either." He smiled and raised a defiant fist. More boos, more hoots. Somebody spat at him. PALME D'OR SCANDALE A CANNES, screamed the next day's papers...
...loitering gangs of Fijian youths. Eventually, some 500 native Fijians gathered in the center of Suva and began to run riot. They swarmed through the city, wrecking the stalls of Indian traders. One group hauled Indian taxi drivers from their vehicles, beating them and breaking car windows. The mob then charged 1,000 Indians in a city park and began punching and kicking them. An army unit finally had to be called to assist police in breaking up the melee. Both Australia and New Zealand had ships standing by near the port of Suva to bring out their nationals...
Court watchers have also detected a new virulence lately in some defense attacks on prosecutors. During the recent federal racketeering trial that ended in the acquittal of alleged Mob Boss John Gotti, defense lawyers launched savage personal attacks against Prosecutor Diane Giacalone; they even made wild charges that Giacalone had given her underwear to a prospective witness as an inducement to testify. Charges like that, says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, "represent a breakdown in the last thread of civility in a contentious adversarial process...
...throw back to Jim Crow laws," he said. "It shows that the Supreme Court is leading the lynch mob...
...crystallized around the larger question -- as much ethical as legal -- of whether the U.S. is wrong to use Soviet-supplied evidence in its pursuit of Linnas and other accused Nazi war criminals. The honorable sheriff in the westerns, after all, protected even the most despicable criminal from the savage mob. In short, in its zeal to see a Nazi atrocity punished, is the U.S. guilty of trimming its standards of justice...