Word: nitze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attackers, a father who was a Chrysler foreman and his stepson, were angry and addled: Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz blamed Japanese carmakers for Detroit's problems, and Chin-Chinese or Japanese, it made no difference to them-was a convenient target. "It's because of you we're out of work," screamed Ebens, who was in fact employed full time. The pair got a baseball bat and beat Chin to death. Said he as he lost consciousness: "It isn't fair." When Ebens, 44, and Nitz, 23, were sentenced last March after confessing...
Last week a U.S. grand jury in Detroit indicted Ebens and Nitz on new, federal charges: conspiring to deprive Chin of his civil rights and causing his death because of his race...
Because the new indictments were brought under federal civil rights law, and not a state murder statute as before, they should not constitute double jeopardy for Ebens and Nitz...
...nitz stood trial with other ranking Nazis at Nürnberg, but was not accused of any atrocities and received the lightest sentence: ten years. Released from Spandau prison in 1956, he retreated into obscurity, seeing only occasional visitors. Some West Germans felt last week that Dönitz, dying so long after the Nazi era, should have been suitably honored for his naval career. Others disagreed. Said Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung in an editorial: "A line should be clearly and properly drawn between today's navy and Hitler's, between today's Federal...
DIED. Karl Dönitz, 89, grand admiral who commanded Nazi Germany's dreaded U-boat "wolf packs"; of heart disease; in Aumühle, West Germany (see WORLD...