Word: nuremburg
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...magic failed. Peter Tchaikovsky's score failed to captivate--I found musical intoxication impossible without a beat--and sitting in the audience, I felt more like a babysitter than a dance afficianado. Eight years passed since I had last seen the curtain rise on a snowy night in Nuremburg and watched a petticoated-child journey through the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. And suddenly, this Christmas I found myself listening to Tchaikovsky's tale and thinking of how long it had been since dolls and tutus. I wanted to prove to myself that magic is created by lights...
...telegrams worked. When the hearings' chairman, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D.-Hawaii), began his closing statement at the end of North's testimony, he invoked the lesson of the Nuremburg trials. Inouye said that those trials had invalidated the just-following-orders defense for all time. North's attorney, Brendan Sullivan, jumped to his client's defense. Sullivan challenged the Senator, saying that Inouye purported to be listening to the American people. Some 20,000 favorable telegrams were sitting on his desk, the lawyer protested, and that represented the people's will. In the face of such popular acclaim, allusions...
...decision which McCloy made or participated in These were 51 49 decisions made by men during national crises under the pressure of time and with incomplete information. It is a false and insidrous analogy to compare the decision makers in these cases to the Nazi war criminals at Nuremburg as one dissenting editorial...
...greatest difficulty for Mr. Bisharat lies with the Israeli commissions's finding and recommendations. Mr. Bisharat calls the recommendations "mild" in the face of "these crimes against humanity." Are the latter words meant to suggest that the only satisfactory remedy for him is, as Arafat wants, a Nuremburg-type tribunal to judge the complicity of Israel in "war crimes?" If so, and if an unbiased tribunal were to be convened, then surely he would agree that Arafat and his PLO colleagues would be, as Alan Dershowitz has said, the first defendants because of their systematic killings of civilians over more...
...Butcher's" legal defense hinges on some familiar arguments already used without success at the Nuremburg trials after the war. For example, Barbie, quoted in 1972, claimed that "to participate in a war carries risks, even if one is only doing his duty." He further noted in a more recent interview that, "I did my duty. My particular job was the war against the French Resistance...if Germany had won the war they wouldn't be bothering with my case...