Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German spectators, many of them with the stiff, erect bearing of former Wehrmacht officers, Manstein heard the verdict. He was found guilty on nine counts concerning execution and maltreatment of Russian soldiers and civilians; he was cleared of eight other counts, notably concerning the extermination of Jews. Then the court pronounced sentence: 18 years in prison. For 62-year-old Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, it was probably a life term...
...floodlights in the Sofia courtroom came up full force, concentrating on the miserable defendant in the dock. The court asked Traicho Kostov, once Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, if he wished to make a final statement. Earlier in the trial Kostov had refused to play his assigned role, had denied being guilty of espionage and treason against Bulgaria (TIME, Dec. 19). This was his last chance to redeem himself-and he rejected it. "I must say once again," he began, "that I was never a police agent, never an imperialist...
...subsided, Kostov's lawyer apologized for "defending" him, and called for the maximum penalty. A lawyer, he said, should not try to help a guilty client: "In a Socialist state there is no division of duty between the judge, prosecutor and defense counsel." Next day the court found Kostov guilty of treason and sentenced him to the gallows; his ten codefendants, all of whom had pliantly "confessed" and testified against Kostov, got off with life terms or less...
...extraordinary claim which it did not document; before the end, said the Ministry of Justice, Kostov had made a groveling plea for mercy and a "full confession." The late Traicho Kostov, who was in no position to deny the tale, was quoted as explaining that his defiant attitude in court had been due to "nervous agitation and the unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria's people were not told of Kostov's execution, nor did they hear of his alleged message from...
...they gave up when the lawyers pointed out that the Justice Department could issue an injunction restraining them, and nothing could be done about it until the Supreme Court convened again next year. By then the emergency in New York would probably have passed