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...intent on showing the world that he's enjoying exile. He has reacquainted himself with the pleasures of golf-at least until conditions in Beijing, where he spends much of his time, got so icy his bodyguard couldn't put the tee into the ground. Acknowledging that his suit was hanging a little loose over his frame, Thaksin explains: "I've lost weight because I have time to do yoga, not because I feel grievances. I'm very relaxed." Indeed, the former PM expresses gratitude toward the generals who removed him from power and formed the ruling Council for National...
...EISENBERG, Oregon lawyer who filed a suit challenging the National Security Administration's domestic surveillance program, after Justice Department lawyers used tactics like seeking to delete files from computers on which plaintiffs' lawyers prepared their case...
Attempts to squelch publication of Spycatcher abroad, however, have not fared so well. In September 1985, the London government filed suit in an Australian court to prevent release of the memoir. So far, the testimony of government witnesses in the case has been embarrassingly inconsistent. British Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong has admitted that he was "economical with the truth" on the stand. The defense also noted that British officials allowed Journalist Chapman Pincher to publish a book in 1981 that contained similar material...
Most damaging so far was a decision in New Orleans last month by Federal Judge Robert Collins, who called a U.S. Customs Service drug-testing program "unreasonable and wholly unconstitutional." Acting on a suit brought by the National Treasury Employees Union, Collins permanently enjoined a program requiring urinalysis tests for employees seeking promotions in three sensitive categories, including those directly involved in enforcing drug laws. In Chattanooga, Federal Judge R. Allan Edgar last month rejected the city's program to test police and fire fighters, ruling that an individual could be examined only when supervisors had "reasonable suspicion" that...
...American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile, were outraged that GM paid about $60?or twice the going market rate?for each of Perot's series E shares. One stockholder, Abraham Duman of Highland Park, Tll., filed a suit against GM, claiming that its directors had violated their fiduciary responsibility by paying such an enormous sum to Perot...