Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gray walls and imitation-marble columns gave the courtroom a properly sober atmosphere. At precisely 2 p.m. last Wednesday, five black-robed judges walked slowly to the podium and brought the proceedings to order. The prosecutor's opening statement set forth an explosive agenda: the alleged complicity of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in Nazi war crimes during World War II. "I do not represent that his is the hand that holds the smoking pistol," said the attorney. "War crimes were committed by those men whom Waldheim served. But there will be no doubt, I submit, in your minds that Waldheim...
...attempted an even more thorough examination. Twenty-five researchers spent five months combing archives and interrogating witnesses in 19 countries. Their work was arduous and sometimes delicate. One investigator had to listen in silence to a five-hour anti-Jewish tirade from an unrepentant ex-Nazi in order to gain his confidence. Others tracked down a witness in Poland who agreed to meet them only at a gasoline station. Though names are being kept under wraps, 37 witnesses have been flown to London to testify at the nine-day trial. Twelve of them, according to the producers, have never before...
...another, but Pap tests and screenings for cholesterol are among those that are most often incorrect. The Federal Government monitors only labs that serve Medicare patients or do interstate business. State laws have been described by one investigator as a hopeless patchwork. Some laboratories submit to proficiency reviews in order to be certified by private professional groups, but thousands of other privately run labs are unregulated...
...effect of the Democrats' antidrug homilies may be little more than saying "Me too." Democratic Political Consultant Bob Shrum calls drugs a "valence" issue -- one that supersedes more routine concerns. Traditionally, Republicans have been perceived as the party of law-and-order and international machismo. But the drug issue gives Democrats a way of denouncing crime and declining social values without sacrificing the virtues of compassion. And it is already serving to help the Democrats strike emotional chords in voters who have mostly been unmoved by the 1988 primaries...
...Kuwait more than 2,000 people attended a funeral for the two men slain aboard the jet. Though many of the mourners called for revenge, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad as-Sabah, Kuwait's ruler, was not likely to order the execution of any of the 17 imprisoned terrorists. That might incite the country's Shi'ite minority, which constitutes about 30% of the population. The Kuwaitis view the hijacking as part of their continuing struggle with Iran, which has sought to destabilize their country in an effort to punish it for supporting Iraq in the gulf...