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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret police) agents, they were charged with making a public disturbance and slandering the Soviet Union. After a three-day trial, a Moscow court two weeks ago imposed terms of exile or imprisonment on the five defendants. By banning foreign newsmen from the trial and by packing the small courtroom with a specially selected hostile audience, the Soviet authorities sought to curb information about the proceedings. They failed. Last week Western newsmen in Moscow received surreptitious copies* of the final remarks of two of those on trial: Mrs. Larisa Daniel, wife of the imprisoned writer Yuri Daniel, and Pavel Litvinov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Protest on Trial | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

VOICE FROM COURTROOM: Speak about yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Protest on Trial | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...there to repeat his belief that they are not. To the subcommittee members, Nader presents a fascinating figure-a David to Detroit's Goliath. "Why are you doing all this, Mr. Nader?" one of the Senators asks. "I became in a sense incensed," Nader replies in the convoluted courtroom language that is his customary way of speech, "at the way there can be a tremendous amount of injustice and brutality in an industrialized society, without any accountability without any responsibility. This is a problem of individuals confronting complex organizations. It is not an equal contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE POWERLESS | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...time-payments from uncomprehending victims for $100 cameras, to California Governor Ronald Reagan, who tried vainly last year to curtail the program's influence. C.R.L.A. has won 85% of the 4,000 cases it has taken to court. The benefits, as Lorenz sees them, go far beyond the courtroom. "If you act in groups," he says of CR.L.A.'s clients, "you can at least gam a limited sense of participation and control over your own destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE POWERLESS | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...Preston Battle, criminal court judge in Tennessee's Shelby County, is determined to keep the trial of James Earl Ray from turning into a courtroom circus. To make sure, Battle has issued a code of procedure that, among other things, prohibits any prejudicial, out-of-court discussion of the case by the principals. Last week, with the trial of Martin Luther King's alleged assassin still more than a month away, Battle made it clear that he meant what he said. He not only found Ray's lawyer and private detective guilty of contempt, but he issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Maneuvers in Memphis | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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