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Died. Anthony Hauck Jr., 71, former New Jersey prosecutor whose rigorous, unrelenting cross-examination led to the 1935 conviction and eventual execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnap case; of a heart attack; in Flemington, N.J.
The real fault was in the bungled execution of the basic decision. The police operation was badly mismanaged, and that failure was compounded by a lack of zeal in the task. Bavarian police were seemingly determined to carry off the ambush without loss of German life, though they were unsuccessful...
King's Confidence. At the very time that Oufkir was proposing the assassination of Gaddafi he was already plotting the attack on Hassan, according to the King. The scheme, in fact, was hatched only four days after army cadets stormed the King's summer palace last July. If...
> In Hoai Nhon district, 300 townspeople were herded together in front of a village school and designated a "people's court." They were invited to denounce the crimes of a man named Phung Sao, who had been in charge of the town's military affairs under the Saigon...
If those ambiguities had already been resolved, the public execution was still to come. So was the pursuit of someone else to fill out the ticket. The travail of the Democratic Party developed this way day by day: