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On Aug. 15, 1973, Mikhail Malyarov, the Soviet Deputy Procurator-General, telephoned and asked me to come see him. At his office on Pushkin Street, Malyarov said that meeting with the foreign press, as I had been doing in behalf of dissidents, could be regarded as a violation of my...
Vladimov does not expect Andropov himself to reply. An answer will come either from the passport office, which means he will leave, or from the procurator, which means he will be warned that criminal charges are pending. For now, the man widely considered the best writer of his generation in...
Dalla Chiesa came in the name of peace and order, with a formidable reputation for getting his way. The General had plans to strike hard and reach high--straight to the top, the untouchable dons of the Families. Other Italian officials had tried this sort of thing before: Cesare Terranova...
Courts of Terror is the result of a human rights project that failed. Led by Telford Taylor, who was U.S. prosecutor at the Nurnberg War Crimes Trials of 1946, a group of distinguished American lawyers gained power of attorney for the relatives in Israel of 19 Jews serving sentences at...
The Gospels - the only detailed written records on the life of Christ - record that Jesus of Nazareth was condemned by the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem on a charge of blasphemy and some what reluctantly executed by the city's Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate. Historians have long been dissatisfied with this...