Word: leon
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Meanwhile in Genoa, some terrorists were receiving at least some punishment. Six jurors and two judges ordered less than the maximum sentences for several of the Palestinian terrorists charged in the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of U.S. Tourist Leon Klinghoffer out of sympathy for their youth and the plight of the Palestinians. Though the prosecution sought a life sentence for Youssef Majed al Molqi, 23, who was accused of killing the wheelchair-bound Klinghoffer, the court sentenced him to 30 years...
Abbas and two fellow fugitives were given life sentences, but the hijacker accused of actually killing the 69-year-old Leon Klinghoffer received a lesser sentence--30 years in prison...
...added, "We regret that the murder of Leon Klinghoffer was not treated more severely...
...Contemporary Adolescence: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations" and Crea S-150, "Children's Literature." The former, taught by Dr. George Goethals, a lecturer on psychology and psychatrist at the Harvard Medical School. He will teach students how to analyze clinical cases. The latter, taught by Harvard lecturer on English Leon Steinmetz, will "explore the world of children's literature, combining theoretical and practical aspects of the genre...
...work. It offended the etiquette of alienation. Too bad--he was still an extraordinary painter, a lighthouse of vitality. Nobody could say Rivera kept a steady political line, but at least he was no ideologue; his socialism was instinctive and antitotalitarian, like Picasso's, but much deeper. Rivera gave Leon Trotsky asylum from Stalinist assassins (including the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros) in his own house at Coyoacan, but two years later Trotsky moved out, complaining that he no longer felt "moral solidarity" with Rivera's "anarchistic" views. In 1940 Rivera denounced Stalin as "the undertaker of the Revolution," the betrayer...