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A police inquiry has backed the claims of five women who accused the Deputy Chief Constable of Surrey of sexual

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A police inquiry has backed the claims of five women who accused the Deputy Chief Constable of Surrey of sexual harassment. A police inquiry has backed the claims of five women who accused the Deputy Chief Constable of Surrey of sexual harassment. Ian Beckett, 54, who remains suspended on full pay, was cleared by a jury last Friday of four counts of indecently assaulting two civilianemployees at Surrey Policeheadquarters. But his career is still in the balance after it emerged the criminal investigation into the allegations included interviews with five other women who accused him of sexual harassment.The Surrey Police Authority yesterday revealed for the first time that the police inquiry has recommended that disciplinary action be taken against Mr Beckett in relation to all five alleged victims. The women are understood to be civilian workers at the force headquarters in Guildford who accuse Mr Beckett of sexual misconduct dating back to 1991, when he joined the force.The police authority, which has the power to sack Mr Beckett, met yesterday to discuss the case and said it would reconsider on Thursday what action should be taken.If it decides to take disciplinary action a tribunal will be appointed to hear the case.Mr Beckett was suspended in January 1999 after he was accused of fondling and verbally abusing two middle-aged women in December 1998. At his trial he was accused of being a bully who used his position of power to intimidate staff. He was acquitted of the charges at Southwark Crown Court.An inquiry was carried out by the City of London Police, headed by the force's commissioner, Perry Nove. A police authority statement issued yesterday said: "Mr Nove's report recommended that disciplinary action by taken against Mr Beckett on allegations of sexual harassment in relation to five women.".

The New York-based black rights campaigner, the Rev Al Sharpton, is threatening to call for a boycott of the Burger King fastfood chain over the company's efforts to revoke the franchise of a black businessman. The New York-based black rights campaigner, the Rev Al Sharpton, is threatening to call for a boycott of the Burger King fastfood chain over the company's efforts to revoke the franchise of a black businessman. Mr Sharpton, head of the National Action Network, is intervening on behalf of La-Van Hawkins of Detroit, who claims that Burger King courted him as a franchisee to spearhead its entry into deprived inner-city areas, only to go back on the deal three years later.Burger King, a subsidiary of the British-owned conglomerate Diageo, is counter-suing, claiming Mr Hawkins owes it more than $6.5m from a 1998 loan.Mr Sharpton said Burger King was "pulling a whopper over the black community" and accused it of a "pattern of racism". Minorities, he said, spent millions of dollars at Burger King and minority companies deserved a portion of the business. Mr Sharpton has given the company five days to retain a minority-owned investment company to handle part of its proposed share offering and a minority-owned advertising agency. A company spokesman said, however, that two of the company's three advertising agencies are minority-owned.Black boycotts were used to some effect last year against businesses in South Carolina, in a protest over the flying of the Confederate flag over the State House, and against the Radisson hotel chain after allegations that it set higher room rates for blacks than for whites.* Just over half of the 26 million foreign-born residents of the United States are from Latin America, and a quarter are Asian, the US Census Bureau reported yesterday.* Foreign-born residents of the US are about as likely as other Americans to be college graduates - but the ones who don't have degrees tend to be less educated than the rest of the population.

The bureau said 25.4 percent had a BA or higher, compared to 25.2 percent of native-born Americans with degrees.. British comedian Eddie Izzard was the toast of Hollywood yesterday after scooping two Emmy awards at the 52nd annual ceremony. British comedian Eddie Izzard was the toast of Hollywood yesterday after scooping two Emmy awards at the 52nd annual ceremony. His critically acclaimed one-man show, Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill, took voters of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by storm.He won Emmys for writing the show and for his performance, beating American gag-writing heavyweights such as fellow nominees on the Late Show With David Letterman and Late Night With Conan O'Brien.Vanessa Redgrave won the award for the most outstanding supporting role in a television mini-series or movie, for her performance in If These Walls Could Talk 2, about lesbian experiences in three different decades.She beat another British actress to the gong. Maggie Smith was nominated for her role in David Copperfield, as well as Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Franz and Melanie Griffith.The BBC's prehistoric documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs was named best animated programme of more than 60 minutes.It was also saluted with two Emmys for technical achievement - special visual effects for a mini-series, movie or special and achievement in non-fiction programme sound editing.. The predilection of Hollywood for violent films and video games was thrust into the glare of the US presidential election campaign yesterday as a government report, commissioned after a number of teenage shooting sprees in schools, accused the entertainment industry of aiming graphic material at under-age audiences.

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