Word: inquest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was meanwhile coping with a potential embarrassment of its own, in the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Last week a coroner's inquest opened into the March 6 killing of another three-member I.R.A. team by a squad from the British army's antiterrorist Special Air Services regiment. The inquest is expected to last a month and hear testimony from more than 70 witnesses, including seven SAS members who were involved in the killings. The seven, identified only as Soldiers A through G, will testify from behind a curtain in the witness box, within...
...starting block ahead of the pack. But the pack is coming on hard. As in Watergate 14 years ago, the Times will surely bring in the reserves for the journalistic war that is now declared and may in the end prove as important as the political inquest about to start over the Iranian-contra episode...
...Saturday evening, Aug. 4, 1962, a 36-year-old actress took an overdose of barbiturates and died in her sleep. Twenty-three years later, the inquest still goes on. Did Marilyn Monroe kill herself? Was she murdered? British Journalist Anthony Summers provides some sensational theories, but he is obviously chary of conclusions and wary of lawsuits. Readers of Goddess will learn far more about Marilyn's fragmented life than of her sorry demise. Some of the tale is overfamiliar: the battered childhood, the teenage bride, the nude photos, the Hollywood parabola, the famous marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller...
...years after the fall of Saigon, the debacle in Southeast Asia remains a subject many Americans would rather not discuss. So the nation has been spared a searing, divisive inquest--"Who lost Viet Nam?"--but at a heavy price. The old divisions have been buried rather than resolved. They seem ready to break open again whenever anyone asks what lessons the U.S. should draw from its longest war, and the only one to end in an undisguisable defeat...
...30th anniversary of the execution, was predictably marked by a flurry of retrospective books, articles, and essays. Seen from this distance, the trial seems to have serious implications for our democratic ideals and for our foreign relations with the Russians. Walter and Miriam Schneir's Invitation to an Inquest, a revised edition with new evidence suggesting the Rosenbergs' innocence, and Ron Radosh and Joyce Milton's The Rosenberg File, arguing their guilt, have drawn particular attention. In addition, this month in New York City's Town Hall, these two couples will debate the issue anew...