The general assumption that these weirdly belated prosecutions were politically motivated is not wholly assuaged by the fact that, in defiance of the 30-year rule governing the release of official papers, and for reasons of "national security", documents concerning the Heath government's part in the outrage remain sealed.
The past week's escalation has brought global attention back to the simmering conflict, which has seen periodic surges in violence in defiance of the two-year-old 'Minsk' ceasefire agreement.
This time last year hundreds of poorly-led, ill-trained UN peacekeepers in Sierra Leone were taken hostage by rebels in defiance of the peace treaty signed the year before.
In states like mine, local bishops are urging state lawmakers to follow suit and ban abortion, in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's 42 year-old Roe v. Wade decision.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, a socialist revolutionary who seized his country in 1959 and led it in defiance of the U.S. for nearly 50 years, has died aged 90.
In defiance of the wishes of a 14-year-old drummer for a novelty band from Seattle, the New York City Council just voted to extend mayoral term limits from two to three.
Armed militants on Monday began their third day in the Malheur national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon, where they say they could stay "for several years", in defiance of the US government.
With the 1997 season almost over and nary a protester in sight, the whalers have enjoyed their most productive hunt since returning to sea five years ago in defiance of the international ban on commercial whaling.
Her breeder, Barbara Beissel, said she stopped docking her puppies nine years ago in defiance of the breed standard, which states "the tail is docked," and has made it her mission to show that natural-tailed silkies can win.
"Some young people in Kabul started to play music for the first time in years," he said, in defiance of the Taliban edict banning music.
Going from the natural state of 0.7 percent enrichment to roughly 4 percent — as Iran has been doing for years at Natanz in defiance of the United Nations Security Council — requires about 70 percent of the energy needed to concentrate the uranium to the high levels considered necessary for a bomb.
