Word: conviction
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Died. Elizabeth Turrill Bentley, 55, onetime Communist whose disclosures of wartime Soviet espionage led to the conviction of more than a dozen top Reds between 1948 and 1951; following surgery for an abdominal tumor; in New Haven, Conn. A frumpy New Englander who studied socialism at Vassar ('30), Elizabeth Bentley joined :he Communist Party in 1935 when she fell in love with Soviet Spy Jacob Golos, became an underground courier Between New York and Washington; Golos died in 1943, and Bentley soon after left the party, calling Communism "a kind of missionary complex, upside down," provided the FBI with...
...FIFTH AMENDMENT. Does the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination clause ("nor shall any person ... be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself") apply to state proceedings? The question comes up squarely in the case of William Malloy, a Connecticut convict who pleaded the Fifth Amendment when a state board questioned him about gambling in which he had been involved...
...another development, the John W. Perdew Fund will launch a door-to-door campaign tonight to raise money for Perdew's legal defense. Dean Monro last night called the fund drive "extremely important," since he and other observers are convinced Georgia officials are determined to convict Perdew and the other students...
...testimony was obtained under duress. In a half-hour closing oration, Awolowo frankly lamented that "the invaluable services which . . . I can still render will be lost to the country." The judge, George Sowemimo, who was openly distressed by the entire proceeding, said he had no choice but to convict. In a nine-hour decision delivered last week, he gave Awolowo ten years in prison for treasonable felony, just a bit milder than the 15-year prison term meted out to Awolowo's crony, Politico Tony Enahoro, a few days earlier...
...sixth Station, the voice of Veronica offers "to wipe the sweat of those who carry the Cross." The band plays I Believe as a whole gallery of unfortunates rushes forth to beg compassion, among them a convict, an unwed mother ("Wipe my face, me who carries in my belly a son who has no father"), an unemployed worker and a prostitute ("Why won't humanity...