Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eighteen Csepel Island steel plant workers, accused of "counterrevolution" and murder. Five of them had escaped to the West and were being tried in absentia. The principal defendant, Karoly Szente, a 51-year-old locksmith, startled the court by repudiating his confession. His 19-year-old son did the same...
...library. They pelted "Black Turk" police in the square below, beat back attempts to storm the library entrance. Security forces broke the siege only after firing volleys of tear gas and charging in with batons for hand-to-hard fighting. The same day, a rumor swept Nicosia of the murder of two Turks by EOKA's Greek terrorists. Turk Cyprors stormed out of their quarters, sacked a Greek church and five shops...
...with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that he had decided on murder the day Chekkal joined the French delegation to the United Nations: "I didn't have anything against him personally, or against his opinions, because I am .naturally very tolerant. But I was against his political actions. I thought in suppressing him I would shorten the war in Algeria. True France...
...defense attorney. Merrill would be the defendant. The crime? He could think of none that he had committed. But soon, between Prosecutor Joseph Wiseman's sharp questions and his own loose-lipped, boozy euphoria, Merrill found in growing confusion and fear that he was on trial for murder-and that his fourth host was the former state executioner. The crime: inducing a fatal heart attack in the boss whose job he coveted...
Explains Andrew E. Svenson. a writer and editor for the syndicate: "We have what we call the Stratemeyer formula. In our stories there's no murder, no undue violence-a girl can be tied up. but that's all. There's no gunplay by our heroes. No matter how hard they're pressed, they win by their wits." Neither is there any swearing. The Bobbsey twins used to say an occasional "Gosh" or "Golly." but when a reader protested that these were distant euphemisms for God ("And. by gosh." says Svenson in surprise, "she was right...