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Enter the four Chambers brothers -- Larry, Billy Joe, Willie Lee and Otis -- who blew into their old hometown driving gleaming BMWs and Camaros, sporting gold chains and fancy clothes. When they offered ambitious young men $2,000 a month to return with them to Detroit, they had no shortage of...
Before the verdict was read last week in the Jerusalem courtroom, the defendant complained about a sore back and was carried to an adjacent cell. Thus, after a 14-month trial, John Demjanjuk heard the news by closed-circuit television: a three-judge tribunal ruled that he was Ivan the...
The scene is central to the iconography of the cold war: one December day in 1948 on his Westminster, Md., farm, Whittaker Chambers retrieved from a hollowed-out pumpkin a microfilm that implicated former State Department Official Alger Hiss in the passing of Government secrets to the Soviets. Last week...
In memoirs to be published in May, Hiss, 83, who served 44 months in prison on a perjury conviction as a result of the microfilm evidence, excoriates Chambers as a "psychopath . . . the perfect pawn" of an opportunistic young Congressman then serving on the House Un-American Activities Committee: Richard Nixon...
A legal challenge on immunity could also lead to a protracted court battle. Poindexter, North and Hakim testified before Congress under grants of limited immunity, preventing Walsh from using any of their testimony against them. All but one of the 29 attorneys on Walsh's team avoided TV, the radio...