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...reverberations are now sounding around the world. On Nov. 14, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an autonomous judicial arm of the 32-member Organization of American States, ruled 7 to 0 that a law requiring the licensing of journa lists violated the right to free expression. Stephen Schmidt, an American reporter, had been found guilty in 1983 of practicing journalism in Costa Rica without a required license and had received a three-month suspended sentence from that nation's Supreme Court. In its landmark ruling, the human rights court, which sits in San Jose, Costa Rica, held that...
...Honduras of John Lantigua, an American reporter for United Press International, on the ground that he was not a union member. Lantigua was expelled while working on a story about a secret jail where political prisoners were said to be tortured. In a deliberate effort to break the system, Schmidt, then an investigative reporter for San Jose's English language Tico Times and for the Spanish language daily La Prensa Libre, challenged the Costa Rican colegio at a San Jose meeting of the Inter- American Press Association (IAPA) in 1980. "I'm covering this meeting illegally," he announced...
While the case was being appealed to Costa Rica's Supreme Court, Schmidt left the country--and journalism--to become a financial consultant in Dallas. But he continued the fight. When the Supreme Court released its decision, Schmidt rejected the judges' stipulation that the sentence would be suspended if he returned to Costa Rica and apologized to the colegio. Government attorneys indicated that he could receive a pardon...
...course I did not return," Schmidt snapped. "I didn't want a pardon." What he wanted was a test before the human rights tribunal. He got it after the IAPA persuaded Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez to petition the human rights court for a ruling. Schmidt triumphed, thanks in part to a number of amicus briefs filed on behalf of groups that support freedom of the press, including one by noted Washington Lawyer Leonard Marks and another by Floyd Abrams, one of the U.S.'s foremost experts on press freedom. Nonetheless, President Monge has pointed out, "the opinion...
...Second Team Dexter Skeene, Columbia Forward Lane Kenworthy, Harvard Paul Richardson, Columbia Forward Steve MacPherson, Cornell John Carroll, Brown Forward Kurt Dasbach, Columbia Paul Nicholas, Harvard Midfielder Chris Paggi, Penn Jim Wurster, Columbia Midfielder John Swift, Cornell John Bayne, Cornell Midfielder Mark Prochilo, Columbia Neil Banks, Columbia Back John Schmidt, Brown Ian Hardington, Harvard Back David Kulik, Yale Mark Sachleben, Dartmouth Back James Allard, Columbia Art Lynch, Columbia Back Jack Dies, Penn Jim Cisneros, Dartmouth Goalie Jeff Micheli, Columbia...