Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest for your 1968 Man of the Year a man who while he lived did more to bring men together peacefully than most of us thought possible, and who, after his tragic death, provides those of us who believed in him with the inspiration to carry on his dream: Dr. Martin Luther King...
Last week, for the first time since Robert's death, Ted Kennedy moved out of the seclusion of his Massachusetts and Washington bailiwicks. His journey took him to Morgantown, W. Va., where he dedicated a federal rehabilitation center for errant youth named in Bobby's honor. Recalling the 1960 primary campaign in West Virginia that confirmed Jack Kennedy's position as front runner, and Bobby's own campaign there last spring, Ted was momentarily husky-voiced. "These hills, these people, this state have had a very special meaning for my family," he said. "You have taught...
...judge on Hitler's dreaded wartime People's Court, Hans-Joachim Rehse signed 231 death sentences. Last year a West German lower court sentenced Rehse, now 66, to five years in prison as an accessory to "legal murder." Plainly convinced that the sentence was far too light, the Federal Court in Karlsruhe ordered a retrial on the grounds that he was either wholly responsible or wholly innocent and should be sentenced accordingly. Last week a Berlin criminal court touched off a nationwide uproar by acquitting Rehse...
...Death to All. Under Rehse's cold eye, leniency was rarely a problem. He sat in judgment of a schizophrenic boy who wrote from a juvenile asylum requesting "weapons, munitions, cameras, explosives and a diamond ring" to overthrow the Nazi regime; of a Catholic priest who dispatched an appeal for a "humane peace" to a Swedish bishop; of an internationally famous biologist who told a friend that he expected the Third Reich to crumble. All were condemned to death. To be sure, Rehse served only as a member on the bench of one of Hitler's most notorious...
...dreaded Volksgerichtshof did not deliberately subvert the law as then applicable. Thus, while the sentences in which Rehse participated were "inhuman as seen today, in times of war no nation and no state can get along with normal means of defense. Germany was in a life-and-death struggle...