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Torn between the conflicting demands of Iraq's Arab nationalists and Communists, Iraqi Premier Abdul Karim Kassem is trying to keep a seesaw in balance all by himself. Last week, as the Arab world reacted to his Red-pleasing execution of a score of nationalist Iraqi officers and civilians...
This week, after further testimony, Podola's twelve jurors, battered by diametrically opposed medical opinion, must make up their minds whether he is capable of participating in his own defense. If they decide that he is, he will go forward lo a trial that could end in his execution...
Four days after Tabakchali's conviction came news that he and 18 other Iraqi officers involved in the Mosul revolt had been executed by a firing squad. Four anti-Communist civilians condemned by Mahdawi's court were hanged the same day. But the Tabakchali trial had seemingly shaken...
Early this month Pal Kosa and seven others were lined against a wall in Budapest's Fo Utca prison and shot dead by a firing squad. At the secret trial of Pal Kosa and his friends, 182 witnesses were called for the prosecution, none for the defense. Some Ujpest...
Triumphantly, Castro and Morgan paraded their prisoners on television in Havana. Castro bragged: "If we could have kept our plans secret for 15 days, we would have captured Trujillo and his whole army." Ominously, placards saying "To the firing squad!" appeared on buses and walls. Waldo Medina, a prosecuting attorney...