Word: cased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sirhan's prosecutors, painstakingly winding up their meticulous case last week in Los Angeles after nine days of testimony, the date at the head of the diary's page - May 18, 1968 - underlined the state's contention that the killer who struck down Kennedy almost three weeks later had conceived his act in malice and with long-formulated forethought. Sirhan, distraught that his most intimate secrets would be in the hands of strangers, treated Judge Herbert V. Walker, the police and his own lawyers to some bitter disclosures...
With a day's respite from court, defense lawyers began constructing their case for the 24-year-old Jordanian immigrant. However, when a Pasadena, Calif., school official began testifying for the defense that Sirhan's IQ was 89 (a score of 90-110 is the norm), their client exploded again. While Judge Walker hastily sequestered the jury, Sirhan addressed the bench. "I, at this time, sir," he declared, "wish to withdraw my original plea of not guilty and submit the plea of guilty on all counts...
...more convenient aspects of the case against retired New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw was that neither of the men with whom he was accused of conspiring to kill President Kennedy happens to be alive. Lee Harvey Oswald, of course, was murdered in Dallas two days after Kennedy was assassinated; the other alleged conspirator, a homosexual pilot named David Ferrie, died of a brain hemorrhage two years ago. With little fear of contradiction" (except from Shaw), the state trained its prosecution on trying to connect the defendant with both men, particularly New Orleans-based Ferrie. In the end, Shaw...
...Saigon, a guerrilla force led by a few regulars was beaten back at the wire with the loss of 132 men. A prisoner taken in the assault told his captors later that his unit had been assured that it would attack under heavy artillery protection and would, in any case, face only desk soldiers not used to fighting...
...unrest might well spur British intervention, which in turn would produce a violent response from a goodly number of Northern Ireland's 1,500,000 people. Indeed, the Marquess of Hamilton, a Unionist who sits in London's House of Commons, may not have been overstating the case when he warned on election eve that "if O'Neill is overthrown, then civil war would stare us right...