Word: marton
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...POLK CONSPIRACY by Kati Marton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). The former newswoman and wife of TV anchor Peter Jennings uncovers new information about the 1948 murder of CBS journalist George Polk in Salonika bay, Greece -- and fresh evidence of a cover-up by the Greek and U.S. governments...
...Kati Marton...
...years circumstantial evidence and plain common sense have pointed to agents of the ruling Greek Royalist Party, then conducting a civil war against communist guerrillas. The Polk Conspiracy supports this view. So why, after all these years, should one bother to read more about it? Because Kati Marton, in spinning a real-life thriller, brings fresh material and renewed outrage to < one of the fascinating stories of the cold war. She also points the finger at a surprising cast of collaborators...
Doubt still obscures the affiliations of the man who actually pulled the trigger. But Marton's diligent research provides a convincing case against those who allowed the killers to go free and others who shared responsibility for covering up the truth...
Freshman defenseman Marton D'Orsonnes scored on a screened shot with three seconds remaining to give Clarkson the edge over St. Lawrence, 3-2, in a north country showdown in Canton, N.Y., Saturday night...