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...three judges of England's High Court of Justice overturned the suicide verdict last week, citing irregularities in the way the July inquest was conducted. They ordered that a different coroner reopen the case, although they did not set a date for the new inquest. Calvi's widow Clara says that she did not take Dart in the first hearing because she had feared for her life, but she has promised to provide "fresh evidence" that her husband was murdered...
...others will be allowed to have their say on the future, though, we must inquire why the call for free speech that arose after the Kirkpatrick fiasco seems to apply only to those of the ambassador's political persuasion. The United States government recently refused entry visas to the widow of former Chilean leader Salvador Allende and to Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both had been invited to address organizations in this country. Both are leftists. And both, like Kirkpatrick, should be able to make their voices heard in the United States without having to fight suppression-whether...
...couple behaved like typical tourists, gliding down the Nile, clicking away at the Sphinx, even striking a matching pose in front of a pharaonic frieze at Luxor. Except, of course, that typical tourists do not have the Nile searched for explosives beforehand; neither do they lunch with Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar, nor get together with President Hosni Mubarak. Visiting Egypt on a swing through the Middle East, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were reminded often of the 1978 Camp David accords. Strolling through a Cairo bazaar, he was greeted with shouts of "Welcome, Mr. Peace Man!" Mused Carter: "I could...
...them; Tom Paine (Harvey Keitel), pamphleteer of the American rebellion; and the journalist Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault), to name just the historical personages aboard. Among the fictional creations are a lady-in-waiting to the Queen (Hanna Schygulla), Her Majesty's snippy homosexual hairdresser, a widow in need of consolation, a judge, an arms manufacturer and an aging opera singer heading for a small role in the provinces. Some know, some suspect, some do not particularly care who is in the coach ahead. Some will have turned off history's highway to pursue their private...
...Independent Truckers Association (ITA) strike, George Franklin Capps, 34, a Teamster driver, lay slumped in the cab of his 18-wheeler on Route 701, north of tiny Newton Grove, N.C., fatally shot in the neck by a sniper. "The strike is the last thing we talked about," recalled his widow Esmond. "I told him to be careful...