Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack," cried Cravalho to Burns, "I can hear you fine. Have you got anything to tell us yet?" He listened, frowned, then brightened. "Jack says everything looks fine," he told the legislators and onlookers...
...that Polish Communists were guilty of crimes worse than those he was charged with. Between speeches he listened glumly to wartime recordings of his once-vibrant voice proclaiming, "Without Hitler we are nothing. With Hitler we shall be all!" Husky guards dragged the ex-Gauleiter to his feet to hear two verdicts: for a Polish Jew named Hersz Pianko, whose entire family of 63 persons was wiped out under Koch's rule, the judge ordered payment of one poignantly symbolic zloty (4?); for Koch, the verdict was death...
...Vienna, one of Koch's most efficient killers, a 52-year-old former SS master sergeant named Josef Gabriel, faced justice for wholesale murder in Galicia. Early this month, to escape trial, Gabriel had hurled himself from a third-floor courthouse landing, but he survived to hear witnesses describe how he held Jewish children under his arm while blowing their brains out with a pistol. Likely sentence: life imprisonment...
Looking on at another outburst of Arab street hate, the U.S. could be grateful for being out of the line of fire for once. It was refreshing to hear Nasser speak for the first time of "a Communist reign of terror," and to have Kassem denounce not the West but Nasser. And to hear the Communists, rather than the Western powers, accused of dividing the Arab nation was a welcome change. Yet those who now instinctively saw in Nasser a welcome new ally overlooked his own heavy and continuing dependence on the Soviet bloc. London's conservative Daily Telegraph...
...studying the case in order to execute him," said the Prime Minister. Next day one René Ray Rivero, an official of the Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property who was under suspicion, shot and killed himself at Havana's police headquarters. Waiting anxiously to hear their fate were hundreds of Ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista's civilian government employees, now in jail on charges of stealing public funds or enriching themselves by "collaborating" with the Batista regime...