Word: courtroom
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Last week the first two trials resulting from that investigation were simultaneously drawing to a close in a Manhattan federal courtroom and in the small (pop. 10,381) New York town of Goshen. Both cases produced some legal melodrama: swaggering political posturing by defendants, protests by their radical supporters, and massive security precautions by officials. But beneath the surface, the trials were also textbook examples of smooth cooperation among the numerous law-enforcement agencies involved...
...Capitol Hill, Correspondents Evan Thomas and Christopher Redman covered the House's passage of the bill to cut off funds for covert operations in Nicaragua. Redman also detailed the debate over the CIA'S role in Central America. The story even spread into a Washington federal courtroom, where Justice Department Correspondent David Jackson reported on an American businessman who is suing the U.S. for occupying part of his Honduran ranch in order to train Salvadoran soldiers. In all, nine Washington correspondents, as well as 32 correspondents and reporters in Latin America and elsewhere, filed reports for the cover...
Other writers, discontent with the standard forms of literary expression have begun to create a new genre, blurring the already eroded line between fiction and nonfiction. Shohei Ooka's The Long Slope recalls the Imperial Army's crimes of World War II through courtroom records of the Far Eastern Military Tribunal; Otohiko Kaga's Ship Without an Anchor is the story of a Japanese ambassador who was sent to America to forestall...
...district judge who presided over the tumultuous 1969-70 trial of prominent radicals on criminal charges growing out of the riots at Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention; in Chicago. Hoffman clashed repeatedly with defense attorneys and their clients, ordering Defendant Bobby Seale bound and gagged in the courtroom. An appeals court overturned the five resulting convictions and criticized Hoffman's "deprecatory and often antagonistic attitude" during the Chicago Seven trial...
DIED. Oren Ritter Lewis, 80, outspoken, activist federal district judge whose Alexandria, Va., courtroom was always good theater and whose opinions were often controversial; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. Appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1960, he regularly cut short questioning he found irrelevant, put questions himself, and pushed both sides with his familiar exhortation "Get on with it!" He rendered important school desegregation decisions; he consistently opposed 1960s peacenik protesters, saying, "I never let a deserter try the Viet Nam War"; and he ruled in 1978 that ex-CIA Agent Frank Snepp had violated...