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...Airport. About two hours later Linnas was driven out onto the tarmac and led up a ramp to an Ilyushin Il-62M airliner bound for Prague. Officials from the Soviet Union took custody of him there and shipped him to the Estonian capital of Tallinn. Linnas was convicted in absentia and sentenced to death 25 years ago for running a Nazi death camp in Estonia during World War II. And now he had to face his fate...
These are the charges, supported by eyewitness accounts and recovered camp documents. In 1962 a Soviet court tried Linnas in absentia as a war criminal and sentenced him to death. But by that time he was living in Greenlawn, N.Y., having become a citizen in 1960, nine years after entering the U.S. In 1981, however, his citizenship was revoked after a court determined that he had lied about his wartime activities to immigration officials. The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly decide whether to block his deportation temporarily. If it refuses to do so, Linnas, 67, will probably soon...
Besides sickness or injury, students can be excused from examinations in times of family emergencies. In such cases, if time permits, the student can take the test in absentia, said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...
Certain sports teams have taken exams in absentia when national championships have conflicted with the examination weeks. When Dick Button '52 was skating for Olympic gold, the Ad Board let him take his exams in absentia, Jewett said...
...Lyubimov was warned that, like Dostoyevsky's antihero Raskolnikov, he was guilty of a "crime" and "punishment" would follow. Sure enough, he was stripped of his job at the Taganka Theater, which he had run for two decades, then his Communist Party membership, his Moscow apartment and finally, in absentia, his citizenship. After years of agitating for permission to work in the West, Lyubimov had cruelly been granted his wish. Since then he has staged plays and operas throughout Europe and in Israel, ranging from a Rigoletto in Florence, in which the heroine sang an aria while wafting through...