Word: murders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gray suit, stood uncertainly. When it came, the response was low and fatigued: "Not guilty." With that, former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, once a rising star of British politics, last week went on trial in London's Old Bailey criminal court for conspiracy and incitement to murder...
Thorpe and three erstwhile associates -former Liberal Party Deputy Treasurer David Holmes, 48, Businessmen John Le Mesurier, 47, and George Deakin, 39 -face possible life sentences on charges of plotting the murder of a former male model, Norman Scott, 39, in order to prevent him from publicly claiming that he had had a three-year homosexual liaison with Thorpe in the 1960s. Introduced into testimony last week, for example, were two letters Thorpe had written to Scott on House of Commons stationery; he called Scott by such endearments as "Bunnies," and signed "Yours affectionately, Jeremy -P.S. I miss...
...SALVADOR Mass Murder at The Cathedral A protest turns into slaughter
...used a little-known incident as the fulcrum of the drama. A survivor, Lewis Keseberg (Jon De Vries), instituted a slander trial against other members of the group, led by James Reed (Berkeley Harris), who had accused him of theft and murder. Though Keseberg won his suit, the trial records do not exist, so the play is an imaginative reconstruction...
Nothing so infuriates Italy's terrorists as the spectacle of the democratic process at work. Just as the campaign for the country's early June parliamentary elections was beginning, the ruthless Red Brigades staged their most spectacular urban guerrilla attack since their abduction and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring. Striking in the heart of Rome, a band of as many as 20 brigatisti swarmed into the district headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party not far from such tourist attractions as Piazza Navona and Via Condotti...