Word: suspect
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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...
Military Balance. Both sides seem concerned that military pressure in the opposite camp could impede the talks. Reported Steele: "There is open speculation within the Soviet delegation about who is the real chief of the U.S. team. The Soviets suspect that it is not Smith but former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul H. Nitze, a relative hardliner who backed Nixon's Safeguard program. The Soviets also remain preoccupied by fears that the U.S.'s so-called 'military and industrial complex' will torpedo the talks. In Helsinki, Soviet newsmen continually ask Americans, 'Who has Nixon...
...suspect this is why the crafts in the Johnson Wax Company's collection show the artist's inclination for exploring media and being witty rather than making useful objects. In any case. the contrast between artists preoccupied with investigating material and those concerned with witty commentary livened up the show...
...lawyer from Harvard's Community Legal Assistance Office (CLAO) will defend the suspect in a crime involving Harvard-the attempted theft of the Gutenberg Bible from Widener Library. The trial begins Wednesday in Third District Court...
Police believe that the suspect hid in the library until after closing time on August 19, then went to the roof, climbed down the rope to a window, and broke into the Widener Room where the Bible is kept. He removed the Bible from its display case and was attempting to climb down the rope to the ground outside when he fell...