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...political party. So today, with apt timing, China dispensed a summary reminder to Hong Kong--and to the world--that it is neither responsive nor repentant. A heavily guarded Beijing court took just 10 minutes to reject the appeal of Wang Dan, the dissident sentenced to 11 years in prison for articles written in Hong Kong newspapers. As at Wang's secretive Oct. 30 trial, police kept foreign press away, confiscating tapes and briefly detaining a photographer. "I don't think they will relax on issues of democracy and human rights," sighs Hernandez. She predicts that relations with the tightly...
Three eyewitnesses have provided Payne's current lawyer, Paul Khoury, with sworn statements that they saw the murder committed by Robert Smith. Indeed, Smith himself, who became the main state's witness against Payne, later signed a 16-page affidavit stating that he framed Payne because prison officials offered to shave 15 years off his sentence. Thus armed, Khoury marched into a 1991 hearing to reopen his client's case--and was rudely rebuffed. First, Smith recanted his recantation, claiming coercion. Then the judge--who had presided over the original trial--refused to admit Smith's sworn affidavit, ruling that...
SENTENCED. WANG DAN, 27, Chinese dissident who led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests; to 11 years in prison; in Beijing. Paroled in 1993 after serving a 3 1/2-year sentence, Wang continued to criticize the regime and was charged with conspiring to overthrow the government...
SENTENCED. EUGENE DE KOCK, 48, commander of a South African security-police assassination squad who was nicknamed Prime Evil by his colleagues; on 89 charges, including six of murder committed during the apartheid era; to two life terms and 212 years in prison; in Pretoria...
...thenceforth about spending so much of the election on such minute specks of land, the argument was really about how the candidates would deal with the Communist menace--a debate definitely worth having. When George Bush spent the Fall of 1988 talking about the Rledge of Allegiance and prison furloughs, Americans understood it as the criticism of a Democratic Party that too often failed to recognize America's special place in the world and sought to strike an improper balance between the rights of criminals and their victims...