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William Kunstler is more than just a lefty defense attorney known for taking on unpopular clients like Colin Ferguson and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He's also a poet, having just published a collection of sonnets, Hints & Allegations, which features works such as "The Trial of Marion Barry" ("When our officialdom has stooped so low/ We all must utter a resounding 'No!'") and "William H. Rehnquist" ("The thought that such a man could lead the Court/ Might well have made the Framers self-abort"). In fact, a number of prominent attorneys display bardic talent-as we discovered by repunctuating some...
...bloody showdown. In the three years since the war started, the secretive clique of army generals running the government has only deepened its credibility problem by appointing no fewer than three Presidents and four Prime Ministers. "Corruption has never been as bad as it is now," says Omar Belhouchet, an Algiers newspaper editor who has survived two assassination attempts. Even middle-class people who are frightened by the fundamentalists have little faith in the government. "Every official statement for the past three years claims to have broken with the past," says an exasperated civil servant. "But we haven't seen...
Then there are Winnie's dubious deals. After she announced that the A.N.C. Women's League, which she heads, was going into a tourism venture with actor Omar Sharif, 11 of the league's 25 executive-committee members resigned. Charging her with ``undemocratic behavior,'' they said she had defied the committee's veto on the deal to form Road to Freedom Tours. Her colleagues had already been upset that she had used her official position to boost a new entertainment company run by her daughter Zinzi and also by reports of her association with a woman convicted of illegal diamond...
...SHEIK OMAR ABDEL-RAHMAN Terror trial codefendant shifts plea to guilty and fingers...
America's biggest terrorism trial opened in a New York City courtroom as prosecutors began making their case against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other Muslim men who are accused of having plotted to blow up key New York City landmarks in 1993 as part of an alleged holy war against...