Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final presentation of evidence, the prosecutors flashed grisly pictures of the bruised corpse of former Coal Mining Minister Zhang Linzhi on a large screen in the courtroom and called two witnesses to testify that Jiang Qing had ordered Red Guards to deal with him as a counterrevolutionary. Then, in the "debate" portion of the trial, which allows a modicum of defense, Prosecutor Jiang Wen demanded that Mme. Mao be punished in accordance with Article 103 of China's criminal code. It allows the death penalty in cases where "serious harm" has been done to the state...
After a five-day recess, Prosecutor Jiang Wen condemned Mme. Mao's defense as "a vicious slander and calumny of Chairman Mao Tse-tung." Significantly, the prosecutor did acknowledge that all people in China "are very clear that Chairman Mao was responsible for their plight during the Cultural Revolution"-the sole official recognition of Mao's mistakes made in the trial. But the prosecutor hastily added that Mao could not have ordered his wife to commit such crimes as the attacks on high state and party officials...
...White House Chief of Staff, Haig presided over the sinking Government with considerable grace and good humor and, though a military man, he was much less authoritarian than his predecessors. While many Democrats resented his role in trying to preserve Nixon's presidency, Leon Jaworski, then special prosecutor, now completely exonerates him of any wrongdoing. Haig helped maintain staff morale and ensure that essential business was done in Nixon's last days; he helped to ease Nixon out of office and prepare the transition to Ford...
...What was Haig's role in the Saturday Night Massacre? When Nixon wanted to fire Archibald Cox, the first Watergate special prosecutor, Haig joined in a scheme designed to force Cox either to agree to stop seeking more Nixon tapes or to resign. The plan involved having Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 72, a respected but hard-of-hearing Senator, listen to certain key tapes and verify the accuracy of transcripts to be made by the White House and turned over to the Senate Watergate Committee instead of the tapes. Haig got Stennis and Watergate Committee Members Sam Ervin...
...Haig stall Jaworski? Cox's successor, Leon Jaworski, portrays Haig as a tough but ethical adversary in the ex-prosecutor's post-Watergate book, The Right and the Power, and now contends that Haig merely "had to do what Nixon told him to do and this is what he did." But former associates of Jaworski recall that his attitude was far different during the investigation. Insists one: "Jaworski used to rant and rave aplenty about Al Haig." When Jaworski threatened to protest publicly the White's House stalling over delivery of tapes, Haig pleaded for more time...