Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. It was the greatest experience I've ever had." > Chicago's Donald P. Moore, 35, was a top-of-his-class (Illinois, '56) candidate for Wall Street, but chose to work for local indigents instead. In 1957 he took on Emil Reck, a feeble-minded murder defendant serving 99 years on the basis of a coerced confession. Moore spent four no-fee years fighting to a Supreme Court victory that freed Reck. In 1961 he won another Supreme Court decision permitting a Chicago Negro family to sue in federal court for unlawful police invasion of their...
...Principle. The confession problem stems from the court's own decision last June in Escobedo v. Illinois, which voided a Chicago murder confession because the police had refused to let the suspect see his lawyer. Escobedo seemed to establish a new principle: that a grilled suspect has a constitutional right to see his lawyer-and by inference, to be told he has a right to silence. But did the court's ruling mean that police must now advise all suspects of their rights to counsel and silence (a standard FBI rule), lest all voluntary confessions be automatically tossed...
...overthrow and subsequent murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963 opened a political Pandora's box in Saigon. Since that angry day, the government has changed hands seven times; the war against the Communist Viet Cong has grown even tougher; the U.S. has been forced to escalate the conflict by bombing North Viet Nam and nearly doubling its own forces in the south. Most important, Diem's fall brought to an end nearly a decade of political stability in Viet Nam. Was Diem's downfall inevitable or even imperative, the product of immutable historical forces...
...Desperate Surgery." Mecklin's account of the coup and of the murder of Diem and Nhu is colorful but carefully subjective-he reports only what he saw. Although he states categorically that Lodge was intent on getting rid of Diem and that he knew the coup was planned-indeed had spoken with the coup leaders-Mecklin does not charge that the U.S. Mission was directly involved...
When the Emperor died, Lady Wu assumed the regnancy and soon transformed government by murder into government by massacre. Hundreds died every day in the torture chambers operated by her secret police; whole villages were wiped out by ambitious commanders who invented a sedition whenever they wanted a promotion. When all possible opposition was crushed, Lady Wu abolished the Tang succession, established the Wu dynasty, and in 690 had herself crowned as the first Wu Emperor. To everyone's amazement, she proved in most respects a model monarch. She demolished the apparatus of terror and installed a Cabinet...