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Died. Francis Biddle, 82, Attorney General from 1941 to 1945 and U.S. judge at the 1945-46 Nurnberg war-crimes trials; of a heart attack; in Hyannis, Mass. An able and wealthy lawyer who traced his ancestry to the nation's first Attorney General, Civil Libertarian Biddle often objected to the decisions of the times-as when thousands of Japanese nationals were interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He felt no qualms, however, in dealing with eight Nazi agents smuggled into the country in 1942, and demanded stiff sentences (six were executed). At Nurnberg, he staunchly defended...
...Willy Brandt will be his party's stan dard-bearer in the national elections, in which he will probably face Christian Democratic Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. Though he was roughed up by rebellious students and met with cries of "Labor traitor!" when he arrived outside the auditorium in Nurnberg, his party gave him only pleasant treatment inside. By a 325-to-8 vote, the delegates re-elected him party leader and cheered his new policies. Those policies are certain to cause severe strains within the coalition Cabinet, especially since Chancellor Kiesinger and his fellow Christian Democrats hope that they...
Purge Scene. What they get for their $40 tuition is eleven 2½-hour seminars, including screenings and analyses of TV pilot films. Dozier also gives the floor to big-name guest lecturers whose castigations and confessions are reminiscent of scenes from Nurnberg or a Moscow purge. Screen Gems' Harry Ackerman, one of TV's hottest hit makers (Dennis the Menace, Bewitched, The Flying Nun), conceded that the only hope for quality programming is a fourth network, run by Washington. Another visiting professor, Lee Rich, TV vice president of the Leo Burnett ad agency, said that there...
Since the Nurnberg trials, hundreds of former Nazi officers, soldiers, industrialists, physicians and other civilians have been convicted of war crimes in German courts. The Germans have just tracked down Treblinka Camp Commander Franz Stangl, who has been extradited from Brazil. They still have hopes of finding Josef Mengele, the camp doctor accused of experimenting on thousands of people at Auschwitz, and the biggest quarry of all, Hitler Deputy Martin Bormann. Yet the men who knowingly gave many of Hitler's acts their legal veneer, the Nazi judges, have escaped prosecution, claiming that they were simply upholding the laws...
During his drawn-out court-martial on charges of military misconduct, Captain Howard Brett Levy and his attorney have spiced the otherwise routine trial with dark hints that U.S. Special Forces in Viet Nam were guilty of war crimes as heinous as any condemned at Nurnberg two decades ago (TIME, May 26). Last week, in an unexpectedly bold move, the Army court allowed Levy's attorney to wage the first "Nurnberg defense" in a U.S. court-martial. To the surprise of almost no one, it failed dismally...