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Summary Execution. For all the surface tranquillity, the coup imposed harsh military rule, complete with martial law, a provision for summary execution, and a prohibition of political gatherings of more than four persons. The new regime is virtually identical with the clique that controlled the former government. Besides amiable, soft...
"We came to the realization that we were having a shitful season with a team that should've won the league," senior guard Jerry Hevern said last week. "Of course, we wanted to find out what was wrong--the execution or the system."
To Destroy Is to Save. The extensive television coverage of Tet brought home to many Americans for the first time the bewildering contradictions of a bitter and seemingly unendable war. The summary execution of a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon by a South Vietnamese police chief-seen...
At any rate, Hakim will not be going back immediately. On October 22, his lawyer, David Nelson, appeared in Equity Session of Suffolk Superior Court, and obtained a restraining order postponing the execution of the extradition order to December 17. In the mean time, efforts are being made in Missouri...
Seven years later, in August of 1927, they were electrocuted for this crime. Yet both before and after their execution, the world would stormily debate two important issues: Were they in fact guilty, and did they have a fair trial?