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London's strangest drama of the summer season continued in the Bow Street Magistrates' Court last week. Michael Fagan, 33, the unemployed laborer who had stunned Britain by wandering into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom three weeks ago, was brought into court for a bizarre 17-min. bail hearing. (Bail was denied.) At the same time, a Scotland Yard investigation of the affair revealed just how somnolent the Queen's protection had been during Fagan's peregrination through Buckingham Palace...
...board for more than two months. The tab: $1,475,516.34. The hotel called Hollywood police-most of the department once worked part-time for the sheik-who arrested him on a felony fraud charge. Sheik Fassi cooled his royal heels in jail for six hours, waiting for a bail bondsman to put up $1,000. "What is $1,000?" sneered Saud Al Rasheed, a family spokesman, who says the hotel bill will be paid promptly. "One thousand dollars we spend on tips for waiters...
...conference was scheduled at au arraignment in Brookline Municipal Court yesterday. No bail was set in the case stemming from an alleged attack with a baseball bat on a 16-year-old male by an unidentified man who drove away in an automobile allegedly bearing the license plate of Scalise...
...first and easiest step of the budget process and have never-I repeat, never-been lived up to." That sounds cynical, but Congress proved the point last week. Even as it was struggling to curb spending, Congress decided to appropriate an additional $3 billion that was intended to help bail out the housing industry. The measure was promptly vetoed by Ronald Reagan...
...test of the Classified Information Procedures Act of 1980, designed to prevent defendants from "graymailing" the Government with threats to disclose secret information. The law allows the presiding judge to determine what evidence is too sensitive to be admitted in court. Wilson, who was being held on $20 million bail in a Washington-area jail, refused to enter a plea at his arraignment hearing Friday. His attorney, John Keats, instead argued that he needed two weeks to investigate whether his client had been illegally apprehended. Judge John Pratt denied the request and entered a plea of not guilty on Wilson...