Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy assassination controversy last fall, he has forced up the ante with one bizarre theory after another. First he announced a plot involving New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw, ex-Airline Pilot David Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald, eventually linking them with Jack Ruby. Later he charged that a murder team of anti-Castro Cubans had planned the killing, using Oswald as a decoy. Next Big Jim claimed that the CIA and FBI were aware of these plots and were covering up. So, too, he said, were powerful interests in the Eastern Establishment and the Federal Gov ernment, which had banded...
Through it all, Big Jim wavered not a whit. More arrests, he hinted, can come before October, when Clay Shaw is expected to go on trial for conspiring to murder President Kennedy. A key defense witness at that trial is sure to be Bill Gurvich...
Some of these tactics sound far out, but they seem to be working. Although Mississippi judges frequently sentence Negroes to death for rape and murder, a determined group of lawyers has managed to block every Mississippi execution for close to three years, mainly on the basis of the contention that juries there are segregated. The A.C.L.U. and Legal Defense Fund have already obtained a restraining injunction in Florida that bars any executions until the suit is decided. A decision on the California injunction request is due this week. Since both sides in the Florida case have promised to appeal adverse...
...formal peace treaty, Eban concluded, would be Israel's best guarantee that its Arab neighbors would cease their "design at politicide-the murder of a state." Such a treaty, he insisted, would also bring enormous benefits to the whole troubled area. Israel, for example, would give Jordan-whose only present port is on the Gulf of Aqaba-an outlet to the Mediterranean. It would promote a joint program of economic and social advancement and a regional communications system that would permit rail and road traffic between Egypt and its Arab brothers from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon...
Yelping Dogs. Richard is a hunchbacked Renaissance Stalin with a monstrous thirst for power. He terrorizes less by his inveterate plots than by his malignantly charged presence, mesmerizing those whom he would murder. Called "a bottled spider" and a "bunch-backed toad," he is nonetheless poisonously fascinating. Nowhere is this more apparent than when he woos and wins the Lady Anne over the coffin of her husband, whom he has murdered. A scene that seems logically inconceivable becomes psychologically astute as Richard, who has never wept, weeps; who has never knelt, kneels. With the reckless audacity of his passion...