Word: absentia
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...half-century ago, the coveted award was given in absentia to German Pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, a writer and opponent of Nazism who died shortly after being released from a concentration camp. Last week the son of a Jewish holocaust victim, himself a survivor of the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, accepted the same Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo for his work as witness and human rights champion. Before he began his speech, Author- Philosopher Elie Wiesel recited a Jewish prayer of gratitude, but the awful echoes of the occasion all but overwhelmed him. Accompanied to the podium...
...Emperor, who unexpectedly returned home in October after seven years of exile, stands accused of crimes ranging from cannibalism to concealing corpses to killing children during a brutal 14-year rule that ended in 1979. Bokassa was convicted of similar atrocities in 1980 and was sentenced to death in absentia. Under Central African Republic law, however, he is entitled to a second trial...
...Empire and spent $22 million on his coronation. Two years later he reportedly approved the massacre of some 100 children who had failed to buy correct school uniforms. Soon afterward, Bokassa was ousted in a coup backed by France, where he later settled. Back home he was tried in absentia and sentenced to death...
...leader of the hijacking, Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, received a life sentence in absentia. Ever since he was released by the Italians after the U.S. forced his plane to land in Italy, Abbas has been on the run. In a separate development last week, the Greek government fell into line with other West European governments and asked some 20 Libyan officials to leave Athens...
...April 21, a specially appointed committee of the Board refused to change the restriction on in-absentia awards. University President Harold T. Shapiro, who is an ex-officio member of the board, said in a 90-minute meeting with 23 students last week that he opposes changing the by-law. He gave no explanation for his opposition...