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...Pinochet's, when somebody who has committed truly terrible crimes on a massive scale would otherwise avoid the reach of justice. This principle has been accepted and applied by prestigious national courts in the past. The Israeli supreme court did so when it tried the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman. American courts also accepted the principle when they extradited John Demjanjuk to Israel for trial as a Nazi war criminal...
Wiesenthal, who has been chasing Nazi war criminals for the last 40 years and who helped bring Hitler's henchman Adolf Eichman to trial in Israel, said international politics often prevent investigators from securing the arrest of Nazi murderers...
...MEANING OF WORDS by MARK EICHMAN...
...documentary drama based on the 1975 Boston trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin in which he was convicted of manslaughter for an abortion he had performed, a jury decision that was later reversed. The new play, at Stamford, Conn.'s Hartman Theater Company, marks the debut of Mark Eichman, 27. He sticks fairly closely to the reported facts. As a result, Act I, at least, verges on a classroom dissertation on abortion...
Sociologically, Playwright Eichman is most astute in suggesting that the transfer of power from the Boston "blue-bloods" to the Irish Catholic majority has actually accentuated New England's narrow puritan ethic. As Ned ("Scooter") Ryan, Dzundza viscerally endows the prosecuting attorney with the instincts of a fox in a hen coop. Always grave and commanding in presence, Earle Hyman has to wait to the end of the play to deliver the doctor's passion ate plea for the right of a woman to terminate her own pregnancy...