Word: prosecutor
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From Athens, Grivas promptly denounced Makarios' charges as "a fairy tale," challenged him to come to Greece for a public debate of their differences. Makarios, too cagey to be lured into an encounter where" he would, in effect, be standing public trial with Grivas as his prosecutor, promptly refused. At that, Bishop Kyprianos came out in public support of Grivas. Worse yet, Kyprianos raked up once again the old, emotion-charged issue of enosis-union of Cyprus and Greece-and urged Cypriots to denounce the settlement with Britain as "a national tragedy...
...sergeants had been tortured into making confessions. Informed that a senior U.S. officer in the NATO command had supported the brutality charges, Eddy firmly informed newsmen: "In my opinion it is impossible for a responsible American officer to make such a statement." Last week the Izmir public prosecutor's office formally charged Police Inspector Yilmaz Capin and Policeman Ilhan Suyolcu with mistreating the protesting sergeants during and after their arrest...
...Lauris Norstad dispatched a team of crack investigators headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, sometime FBI man. to find out just what was going on at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Izmir, the station at which the four sergeants were serving. Under NATO prodding. Izmir's Public Prosecutor even launched his own investigation into the brutality charges...
According to the Turkish police, the four sergeants among them had bought about $15,000 worth of lire at black-market rates, i.e., at 11 or 12 to the dollar instead of at the official 9 to the dollar. For this, Izmir's public prosecutor last week demanded up to 25 years for McCuistion and lesser prison sentences for the other three...
...their court-martial last week, Shennan and Moheiddin were represented by five attorneys, including the president of the Sudan Bar Association. The prosecutor, acknowledging the deep Sudanese desire for reforms, said that "the Sudanese nation is still at the rear of the caravan" of progress. But there wars pointed evidence that the two had plotted against the Abboud regime. Witnesses testified that Shennan told an army captain in, of all unlikely places, the public reading room of Khartoum's Sudanese Cultural Center that "nobody believes there has been a revolution in this country, not even we, the members...