Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissidents met, bullets whizzed warningly past their meeting place. Tony's more outspoken critics were battered by thugs. With less than half of his 14,000 members turning out for elections, Tony kept winning. But last week he lost in a place where it really hurt: a federal courtroom...
True to the fever of the season, this violent outburst was run by the N.A.A.C.P.-normally a mild-tempered organization. Herbert Hill, national labor secretary for the association, made it clear that things had changed: "The arena of combat for the N.A.A.C.P. has shifted from the courtroom to direct mass action." And he snapped that there would soon be big protests over job discrimination in Boston, St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and New York...
Neither of the men who glared at each other across the prisoner's dock in a crowded Moscow courtroom looked very much like a spy. Dapper Greville Maynard Wynne, 44, was a salesman who lived quietly in London's fashionable Chelsea section with his wife and young son when he was not on the road selling electrical machinery in Russia and Eastern Europe. Slender Oleg Penkovsky, 44, was a much-decorated Russian war hero who recently had held the delicate job of arranging East-West scientific exchanges for a Soviet state committee. But last week the incongruous pair...
...dawned on him that he was a spy, he demanded no part of the "dirty business." but his superiors threatened to wreck his commercial affairs, and so he kept at it. "My answers might seem naive to you professional gentlemen here," he said, to the laughter of the courtroom, "but I had no idea how intelligence operated. I now know." Even before the prosecutor finished his summation at the end of the trial, the government newspaper Izvestia appeared in the courtroom reporting his demand for punishment: a death sentence for Penkovsky and ten years in jail for Wynne. The military...
During his six years as Ghana's boss, President Kwame Nkrumah has dealt with his opposition in a variety of ways -intimidation, jail, exile. Last week he went a step further. In a packed courtroom in Accra, where mine detectors were used to check spectators for weapons, an Nkrumah-created tribunal passed out death sentences to five enemies of the regime...