Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerry Falwell, leader of a six-million-member conservative lobbying group, will give an address on the political influence of evangelists tonight in Ames Courtroom...
Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Event organizers are expecting a large turnout, and there will be a video overflow room for those who cannot be seated in the Law School courtroom...
...defendant in the dimly lit Ankara courtroom last week was expressionless as the prosecutor called for a verdict of not guilty. Bulent Ecevit, three- time Prime Minister of Turkey between 1974 and 1979, had been charged with engaging in political activity, which under a 1982 decree is illegal for former party leaders. But the prosecutor accepted Ecevit's argument that he had been entitled to explain his choice of a political party when he spoke in May at a convention of the party founded by his wife Rahsan...
...capo or % two "just helped to speed the succession along." But by striking at all levels of the Mob families and then "peeling away their empires," Giuliani insists, "it is not an unrealistic goal to crush them." Perhaps. But first there are two new and potentially historic courtroom battles to be fought. For the Mob, and for an optimistic new generation of federal crime fighters, it is High Noon in New York...
...massive blue tanks guard the entrance to the specially built $19 million courthouse, and at least 25 guards keep watch outside. An underground tunnel is used to shuttle prisoners from the adjacent L'Ucciardone Prison into a succession of holding pens in the enormous courtroom. The scene is Palermo, Sicily, where for seven months a Mafia trial that dwarfs the various legal proceedings in New York has been under way. In the homeland of the Cosa Nostra, 474 alleged Mafiosi, whose ranks range from the reputed "Boss of Bosses," Luciano Liggio, to a corps of picciotti, or soldiers...