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DATE: MONDAY, December 20, 1993                   TAG: 9312200004
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PEOPLE

U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein, honored in the journal's Dec. 27 issue, has been on the federal bench in the city's borough of Brooklyn since 1967.

He announced earlier this year that he would no longer preside over drug cases. He objects to mandatory sentences imposed in federal drug convictions and invoked a senior judge's privilege to select his own cases.

He said at the time that he had "a sense of depression about much of the cruelty I have been a party to in connection with the war on drugs." He called himself a "tired old judge who has temporarily filled his quota of remorselessness."

On Dec. 1 he ruled against the Internal Revenue Service, which sought to penalize a taxpayer who added the words "in protest" to his tax return. "A taxpayer need not suffer in silent acquiescence to a perceived injustice," Weinstein wrote.

Prince Edward, at 29 the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, has fallen in love and may marry this summer, the tabloid News of the World reported Sunday.

The bride-to-be is Sophie Rhys-Jones, 28, a public relations consultant, the newspaper said. She and the prince met in August when she helped him with fund raising for a youth program.

Rhys-Jones spends almost every night in Edward's rooms at Buckingham Palace, has dined with the queen, and may spend New Year's with the royal family at Sandringham, the newspaper said.