Word: prosecutors
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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...
...press conference last week, Presiding Judge Frederick Lawton defended the TV inquiry as an important forum for resolving questions surrounding Waldheim's past. "Unless properly investigated," he noted, "these allegations could distort the historical record." Former Nuremberg Prosecutor Telford Taylor, a consultant for the program, also supports the trial. "I see no reason to apologize for the fact that it is taking place on television," he says. "It's better to get a reasoned debate with jurists about the accumulated evidence than what we've been getting...
...after compiling an impressive record as U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts. There he won 108 convictions out of 111 cases of public corruption that his office prosecuted. His difficulties with Meese began last May, as he reviewed allegations against Meese to determine whether they required investigation by a special prosecutor. Weld consulted his superior, Burns, an affable former New York corporate lawyer who, as Meese's top aide, supervised the daily workings of the department bureaucracy...
...pardons given in 1981 to two men "who acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation." The two were high-ranking FBI officials convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins during 1972-73 investigations of the Weather Underground. The response by the prosecutor in that case, John Nields Jr., who served as chief House counsel in the Iran-contra hearings last summer, is just as apt today. Nields argued that pardons in such cases "send out a terrible signal -- that the Government can violate the Constitution and then forgive itself...
...Attorney General hangs tough despite growing concern about his conduct among his aides and in Congress. Ethical questions aside, a special prosecutor sees no indictable offense. -- A congressional task force points to an alarming shortage of housing and pleads for federal dollars to build more. -- The Reagans lease a $2.5 million retirement home in posh...