Word: mangold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FILE ON THE TSAR by ANTHONY SUMMERS and TOM MANGOLD 416 pages. Harper...
...runs the accepted version of the Romanov regicide. Now two reporters from BBC Television, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold, assert a dramatically new version: the Reds faked the original massacre scene in order to convince White Russians-who soon captured Ekaterinburg-that their goal of a royal restoration was hopeless because the Tsar and his family were dead. The two journalists conclude that there were not enough bullet holes or bloodstains in the murder room to accord with the gunshot deaths of seven people. In their opinion, the women were spared for a time. Alexandra was a cousin of Kaiser...
...would exact fines on each of as high as $4,000 and impose jail sentences of up to 45 days. Instead, Muecke was taking his cue, he said, from the ancestral Indian practice of demanding reparations for a crime, as well as from the Anglo-Saxon concept of wergild ("mangold"), which translates roughly as payment or satisfaction. "Any fine I would levy would go to the Government, and that would be like spitting in a blast furnace," went Muecke's tart reasoning...