Word: martinus
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...lawyer did not call it murder, but he held the state at least partly responsible for Biko's death. In a five-minute verdict at week's end, the presiding magistrate, Martinus Prins, ruled out the possibility of charges against the police. Biko's death could not be attributed, he declared, to "any criminal act or omission by any person." Case dismissed...
...former synagogue converted to judicial use several years ago. There each morning Biko's widow Ntsiki and other relatives, still dressed in deep mourning, assembled silently in the front row. Some 250 other spectators packed the remaining seats. Presiding over the inquest was Chief Pretoria Magistrate Martinus Prins. But the man who dazzled the courtroom was Kentridge, 55, a defense veteran of some of South Africa's landmark political trials over the past two decades, whose services were secured by Biko's family...
Almost every city in Europe has its white elephant of a cathedral-decaying stone edifices with more maintenance problems than worshipers in the pews. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, Roman Catholic Bishop Martinus Jansen has come up with a direct, if drastic, solution for his cathedral problem: he has sold it to the wreckers...
...serum containing Haupt's white cells were pipetted onto dime-size disks in a plastic tray, each disk containing a cell-reagent preparation. The intensity of the reactions on different disks was noted, and compared with those already obtained from Blaiberg's cells. The cells, concluded Pathologist Martinus C. Botha, were a fairly good match. Not identical-that is impossible-but similar enough to suggest that Blaiberg's rejection mechanism would not react too strongly against a transplant...
...officer since Horatio Hornblower. This is surprising in some ways, for the hero's trials occur on the well-plowed Murmansk run during World War II. Moreover, the author nearly scuttles his story whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights on a starless night...