Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the rules, Americans have committed a disturbing number of atrocities in Viet Nam-and prosecution has often been prompt. In the I Corps area last year, for example, seven Marines summarily hanged a Viet Cong suspect and shot two others to death. At a court-martial, one defense lawyer argued that his client had gone through "hell" after seeing Marine bodies "burned and tortured, some with their testicles cut off." Nevertheless, all seven Marines were convicted and imprisoned, one for life...
...grave crimes. In 1954, an Army review board affirmed the murder conviction of an enlisted man who had shot a Korean to death while guarding an airfield. The guard claimed that he had been ordered to fire on anyone who did not heed his order to halt, and his lawyer said that this made him, in effect, an automaton without criminal intent. The review board rejected the argument...
...Eisenhower are still moving wholesomely in the background. But startlingly, Tricia, who once seemed shy and reticent, has emerged as a luminous blonde who turns up playing hostess at a White House Halloween party or holding hands at Manhattan's "21" with Eddie Cox, a young Eastern liberal lawyer who used to work for Ralph Nader's Raiders...
...went on trial last week for the machine-gunning of an El Al jet in Zurich last February, an Arab spokesman warned darkly that the Athens blast and the Swiss trial were "all connected." The Arab terrorists seemed totally uninterested in defending themselves. Backed by a claque of Arab lawyer-spectators from Algeria, Jordan, Libya and Egypt, the three denounced their court-appointed Swiss attorney and refused to answer all questions...
...Angeles International Airport and skyjacked it to Rome, where he was captured and jailed (TIME, Nov. 7). Behind that senseless and dramatic odyssey lay another one that helps to explain Raffaele Minichiello's bizarre action. Raff, as his family calls him, retraced that first, formative journey for U.S. Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, who flew to Rome to organize Minichiello's defense. As the young Marine talked in his cell in Regina Coeli prison, Attorney Mitchelson recorded parts of it in Raff's own hesitant English. TIME here presents Minichiello's troubled story...