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...couldn't agree more with Morrow's reference to Baudelaire's statement that evil's shrewdest trick is to persuade us that it does not exist. The very politicians who at the start of 2001 were branded as no more than power-hungry opportunists are now upheld as custodians of all that is good in this world. Maybe evil has managed to persuade us that it does not exist. Evil does not have color, creed or nationality. It comes in many guises and has as its only objective the destruction of good. I implore good and wise people...
OVERTURNED. Death sentence of MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, 47, charismatic former Black Panther and journalist whose book Live from Death Row spawned worldwide support among opponents of the death penalty; in Philadelphia. A federal judge upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction in the 1981 murder of white police officer Daniel Faulkner but found that the instructions to the jury were unconstitutional...
...case of another wartime President, F.D.R. allowed more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans to be herded into detention centers. Acting in an era when Jim Crow still reigned, the Supreme Court upheld these racially charged detentions. In 1988 Congress enacted a law that officially apologized to surviving detainees and offered symbolic reparations, but the Supreme Court has not yet squarely overruled these precedents. Bush has detained many fewer people than F.D.R., has limited his detentions to aliens, and claims specific reasons for suspecting each detainee. Legally, these detentions may hold up. But morally, targeting voteless aliens raises questions...
...American soldiers and a Turkish woman. The four were found guilty of murder or attempted murder and jailed for 12 to 14 years. The attack on the La Belle discothèque, which also injured 230 people, prompted retaliatory U.S. air strikes against two Libyan cities. The judge upheld claims that Libyan secret agents and embassy staff had planned the attack, but not that it was personally ordered by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. MACEDONIA New Constitution Macedonia?s parliament approved a package of constitutional amendments aimed at improving ethnic Albanian rights, ending weeks of wrangling over a Western-backed peace...
...reviewing the case. In general, most countries, including France, refuse to extradite their own nationals. Even in the wartime fervor of 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court ignored Roosevelt's order denying the German saboteurs access to the civilian court. The Court reached the merits of the saboteurs' appeal and upheld the convictions and the penalties - death by electrocution for all but the two defectors - to proceed...