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Last summer, the European Commission of Human Rights studied the prisoners' case, which rested partly on the fact that they are not handled as ordinary criminals by the courts. Instead, they are tried in special courts established under emergency antiterrorist legislation enacted by the British Parliament. The cases are not heard by a jury but by a single judge, and the conviction rate is said to be about 95%. The commission ruled against special status on the grounds that prisoners were not entitled to it under British law or under the European Convention. The commission did criticize the British...
...high case of government corruption in a country that takes pride in its standards of integrity in public office. As a prelude to a formal indictment, Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir last week asked Israel's parliament, the Knesset, to lift the parliamentary immunity of Aharon Abuhatzeira, 42, the Minister of Religious Affairs. That will clear the way for Zamir to press bribery charges against Abuhatzeira; if convicted, he could be sentenced to seven years in prison...
...Hollywood they were calling it Angelgate. It had everything a big production could want: TV stars, starmakers and money-lots and lots of money. But when Los Angeles County District Attorney John Van De Kamp released his long-awaited report on the Charlie's Angels case last week, what had been billed as television's scandal of the decade turned out to be something less than many had expected. "We have determined after careful evaluation of the evidence," said the D.A., "that there are insufficient grounds to institute criminal charges...
...reason for the convoluted accounting is the networks' refusal to pay full production costs of the shows they buy. A program like Charlie's Angels, which is really a display case for three beautiful detectives wearing as little as possible, costs $623,000 a segment. But ABC pays Spelling-Goldberg Productions only $583,000, leaving a deficit of between $800,000 and $900,000 a season. It is generally not until a series is sold for syndication that the deficit is erased and the big profits begin. Until then, producers borrow, worry about cost overruns...
...their part, the Wagners, who stand to make several million dollars from Charlie's Angels, were happy with the out come of the case. They will settle for the payment indicated by the D.A.'s audit...