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...stunned to read about the man who jumped in front of a subway car in a suicide attempt and then collected a $650,000 award for his efforts [Jan. 9]. This story illustrates once again the sham our legal system has become. Any sane juror would have made no award and instead would have held the plaintiffs family and attorney responsible for all legal and court costs...
Even the trickle of Soviet gas shipments to France this month may be a sham. Western energy specialists believe that the gas is traveling through a previously existing network of Soviet pipes rather than the new line from Siberia. Said an official in the French gas industry: "We don't know if the gas is Siberian or not, and we've got no way of telling." Some Western businessmen in Moscow doubt that the pipeline will be completed before...
...expected, Secretariat and Sham staged an early head-to-head duel. Then, with his long, beautifully rhythmic strides, Secretariat began to pull away...
Most observers of South Africa consider the justice system to be a sham. But given this fact, both Gomes and Carstens believe the IDAF has successfully worked within the system and helped bring about what Gomes calls "a fair number of acquittals or sentence reductions...
...pledged that eliminating such laws, state as well as federal, would be the cornerstone of his efforts to achieve equal rights for women. Honegger wrote in the Washington Post that the work of her task force had been ignored and that the President's approach was a "sham." Then she resigned...