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...profiteering (an order which was, in any case, legally unenforceable across the pond). And there are plenty of other distinctions between O.J.'s civil trial and Woodward's, not least of which is that the au pair was actually convicted the first time around -? albeit of manslaughter rather than murder. A jury may decide she's been through enough. She is also not required to appear in person. There is one similarity with the former football star's second ordeal; the media will be kept in check this time. "I see no basis for an attorney appearing on television...
Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority will arrest 30 Palestinians suspected of murder, reduce its police force of 40,000 to the previously agreed-upon limit of 30,000 and rescind the 26 clauses in the Palestinian National Covenant that call for the destruction of the Jewish state...
...climax, Hubbard arrests Devereaux for the torture and murder of Tariq Husseni, an American citizen, and reads the general his Miranda rights. "There's a swelling of music and you feel like that's what America stands for, the rights that he's reading, that apply even to this American Caesar, [played by] Bruce Willis," Bybee suggests. "[These rights] have become soaked into our culture, part of what we think of as the guarantees of American freedom and what we stand...
...military dictatorship responded to the resistance with brutal violence. The Summer 1993 issue of Earth Island Journal reports that a single Ogoni demonstration in 1990 resulted in the destruction of 495 homes and the murder of 80 people by the Nigerian Mobile Police. Since then, scores of villages have been raided and hundreds more Ogoni murdered. Ogoniland has been shut off and placed under martial...
...days later, on May 22, 1994, Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested for the alleged murder of four Ogoni activists, charges so ridiculous that Amnesty International declared him a "prisoner of conscience"--a person held captive for his political beliefs. Saro-Wiwa was tortured and held without trial or medical attention for several months. On Oct. 31, 1995, after an unfair trial, Saro-Wiwa was sentenced to death. He was executed on Now. 10, 1995, despite calls for clemency from the international community...