1.   Among other things, the proposed law would authorize a judge to legally dissolve an organization whose leaders are convicted of two or more criminal offenses.

2.   Moreover, French judges now have the power to dissolve a group whose leader is convicted of two or more criminal offenses.

3.   Nazi leaders were convicted of the offense.

4.   Still, plea bargains are viewed by prosecutors as an indispensable tool in convicting the leaders of complex crimes.

5.   The proposed law also would authorize a judge to legally dissolve an organization whose leaders are convicted of two or more criminal offenses.

6.   Police heavily secured the Jerusalem court where a powerful ethnic political leader was convicted Wednesday of bribe taking and fraud.

7.   A former Surinamese rebel leader was convicted in his absence Tuesday of cocaine trafficking and sentenced to eight years imprisonment.

8.   A Milan court on Monday convicted opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi of illegal party financing, the third guilty verdict absorbed by the media magnate since December.

9.   A radical Polish farmer leader was convicted Thursday of illegally dumping grain from freight cars in a protest last summer and put on probation for a year.

10.   A German neo-Nazi leader was convicted Tuesday of denying the Holocaust occurred and sentenced to three and a half years in prison.