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Chief Minister Somare also must deal with budding separatism on a larger scale. Papuans, for instance, charge that Australian aid-$760 million over the past five years-has gone mostly to New Guinea. Tempers grew so hot over this issue recently that a two-day riot broke out at the annual Papua v. New Guinea soccer match. On the island of Bougainville, which is part of the new nation, there is a growing feeling that the islanders should get a greater share of the $150 million in profits expected this year from an immense Australian-operated copper mine...
Partly because of Judge Hoffman's earlier excesses, two appeals court decisions had thrown out not only the convictions of five of the seven for crossing state lines with intent to foment riots but also the 159 contempt citations handed down by Hoffman. The Government decided against retrying the riot charges, but U.S. Attorney James Thompson overcame the prosecutorial reluctance of superiors on the contempt issue because he believed that the obstructionist tactics of the defense during the first trial should not stand unpunished. After a five-week trial, Judge Gignoux concluded that only 13 of the contempt counts...
...economy, however, caught in a spiraling 15 per cent inflation--the worst in Europe at the time--was starting to have an effect on the Greek people. A memorial service for George Papandreou, former prime minister, brought on riots which for the first time attacked the police and repulsed the riot units with stones and sheer mass...
...crisis will bring us back to some of the virtues that made this country great, like thrift and the belief that waste is sinful." Says Sylvia Lavietes, a Manhattan social worker: "At first I was really depressed about the energy crisis, but now I think it's a riot. It's a real challenge. As a child I sometimes wondered what it would have been like to live in the 1850s. That was a time when people were much more in control of their lives. Our society has suffered from mental and physical atrophy. This crisis could really...
...students arrested, at week's end 13 were still in jail. Two of the students were sentenced to prison terms last week, one for 18 months and the other for one year. Authorities also closed privately operated Korea University for one week after 2,000 students clashed with riot police...