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...lives in Garden Grove, California, was one of about 450 South Vietnamese commandos who were part of an operation called Oplan-34A, which the CIA and Pentagon ran between 1961 and 1968. Two hundred of the commandos who are now living in the U.S. have filed a suit asking that all commandos still alive be paid $2,000 for every year they served in prison--an estimated total of $11 million. Two weeks ago, the case broke open when a federal claims court forced the CIA and the Pentagon to declassify secret payroll rosters and memos. The documents show that...
Comeback kid does not translate well into Russian, but it fits Boris Yeltsin like his own blue suit. As 1996 began, the Russian President seemed out of it, unlikely even to survive the first round of voting that 11 candidates will face next Sunday. He was ailing, unsteady on his feet, glassy-eyed. His leadership and his policies looked just as moribund. His approval ratings moldered in the single digits, and his ambition to run for another term in the Kremlin seemed pointless...
...Rights, insists that every lead is being followed. And he notes that in several cases whites with ties to racist groups have been convicted and sent to prison. Indeed, last week a Baptist congregation in South Carolina opened a new front against the terrorists by filing a civil damage suit accusing the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of being responsible for torching their church...
Still, Stone may yet have to face a Louisiana jury. Attorney Joseph Simpson, who represents clerk Patsy Byers, has named Stone and Warner Bros. in a civil suit filed before Grisham's statements. But other experts feel confident that Stone's First Amendment rights will prevail. Besides, says Vincent Blasi, a professor at Columbia Law School, "this idea of legal liability could come back to haunt authors like John Grisham. Censorship, like revolution, often devours its own children...
...deserves at least as much protection as print," wrote the judges. "As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion." The decision is at least a temporary victory for the ACLU, which along with 57 other organizations had filed suit against the act once it passed. "The ACLU argued that no additional laws were needed to regulate the Internet," says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "Child pornography and obscenity are already illegal and the government has been very effective in dealing with infractions." The Philadelphia panel's decision...