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...contempt for the rule of law and the independent opposition to his disastrous policies. The government has demonstrated little interest in investigating the bomb blasts that last month wrecked the presses of the Daily News, an independent Harare newspaper known for its bold opposition views. After the Supreme Court upheld appeals by white farmers for an end to the illegal seizure of their lands by militant squatters, Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay was forced to resign while four other High Court judges are under physical threat from the militants to quit the bench. Last week the government astonishingly called...
Harvard Coach Frank Haggerty protested the decision, questioning how Baker could have impeded a runner who finished ahead of him. The officials, however, upheld the ruling...
...Italian bankers' association, calls the amended law "unacceptable" because it interferes with the free market. But he is grateful that the decree at least recognizes that a mortgage that is in conformance with the law when it is made ought to remain legal. "If this point isn't clearly upheld, Italian banks may well stop offering fixed-rate mortgages," he predicts...
...obviously has not read many of the high court's First Amendment cases. Just as the Constitution protects pure thoughts and words, it likewise protects "depraved" desires, as long as those desires are spoken but not acted upon. For example in a recent case the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the right of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to publish a parody claiming that the Rev. Jerry Falwell lost his virginity in a drunken orgy with his mother in an outhouse. "Depraved?" Assuredly. Protected speech? Of course, without a single Justice in dissent...
...court rejected Bosch's contention that she had been framed by a South African businessman who she contended had killed Ria to stop her from revealing alleged theft and fraud in a company for which they had worked. The panel upheld the original guilty verdict and the finding of the sentencing judge, who had told Bosch that "the crime was carefully planned with the motive of enabling you to take over the husband of the deceased... You are not very young, you were not intoxicated and you were not provoked." Bosch, the court accepted, brought the gun into Botswana from...