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However, Congressmen and educators alik are confused about just how the $8000 cap would affect aid programs at various schools, lobbyists said. Harvard and other schools and educational lobbying groups are currently investgating the effects of the cap in order to persuade Senators to oppose the measure...
Kaminskaya's most significant criminal case is both a lesson in unfamiliar Soviet legal procedure and a riveting mystery thriller. In 1967 the parents of a 16-year-old boy, Sasha, engaged her to represent him in a sensational case. Sasha and his pal Alik had been charged with the rape and murder of their classmate Marina in a village outside Moscow. During six months of pretrial detention the boys had confessed, then recanted. The prosecution's star witness was an old woman who claimed to have heard Marina cry out as the three youngsters passed under...
Kaminskaya's first meeting with Sasha convinced her that he and Alik were innocent. She quickly discovered the reasons they had confessed. Among them: Sasha had been put into a cell with a horribly scarred adult inmate who told him that if he did not confess he would be sent to a notorious prison where guards and convicts alike would beat him up. Alik had been given a similar cell mate...
During the boys' six-week trial, Kaminskaya's new evidence impressed the court, which referred the case for further investigation. Still, the court at the second trial pronounced Sasha and Alik guilty (there are no juries in the Soviet Union). Undeterred, Kaminskaya and Alik's advocate both appealed; once again the case was referred for investigation. A third trial ensued, this time before the Supreme Court of the Russian Republic. The evidence that the boys were innocent was overwhelming. Among other things, the defense established that the old woman who claimed to have heard Marina...
...Czech Surgeon-Playwright Frantisek Langer is the last production of the eleventh Theatre Guild season. It is a success story in the mid-European idiom. Alik is the silent, dawdling son of a millionaire. All that he subsequently becomes, his redemption from a life of complete inertia, he owes to a girl, Susi. Naturally, since Alik is Continental, Susi is not his wife. Possessing the shrewdness of the slums, she manages, when Alik's father ousts her from Alik's modernistic chambers, to take Alik away with her, to make him work. Together they found a model dairy...
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