(AP) EUROPE NETHERLANDS: LOCKERBIE TRIAL The defense complained that the two Libyan defendants in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 were getting poor translations of witness testimony.
You report that lawyers for the two Libyan defendants in the Lockerbie trial "were getting poor translations of witness testimony" and that the court ordered "an inquiry into the ability of the interpreters" (news item, June 10).
In a testimony about poor medical conditions written with 12 other women and sent to the Berks County administration in December, Gladis wrote: "My daughter has been sick for three weeks with diarrhea and a fever.
Mr. McGreevey's attempted spin of his own poor judgment is poignant testimony to his political disingenuousness; his sexual orientation will likely fade as a material issue when the facts regarding his decision to resign emerge.
The sensation recalls the queasiness caused by seeing tapes of President Clinton testifying about his sexual activities, or of Bill Gates squirmily claiming a poor memory in his testimony in the Microsoft antitrust trial.
The report includes a description of violations of that right in North America, drawing on testimony by poor and homeless women, including women in the United States, who told their stories to the top UN housing official during his consultation on women and housing rights, co-organized by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP), in Washington, D.C. in 2005.
The recent civil society reports on maternal health services for women who belong to socially marginal groups [ 11, 12, 30, 31] and the testimonies of poor women in recent public hearings in Uttar Pradesh [ 27, 28] are also revealing in terms of how social exclusion operates within health systems.
Mr. Bozella's exoneration culminated one of the too-familiar nightmares of the justice system — poor defendant, botched investigation, tainted testimony, withheld evidence.
It had peeling lead paint, and the children were poisoned by the toxic material, harming their ability to focus and contributing to their poor school performance, according to testimony in a 2008 lawsuit brought by the family and settled by a former landlord.
Revenue for the quarter was $533.9 million, down from $698.3 million in the comparable period a year ago and testimony to the poor Christmas sales experienced by many personal computer makers.
