Word: trialing
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...legal principle that no one is above the law and that the ordinary citizen ought to have a day in court. Instead, it is the fundamental error of judgment shown by the Supreme Court in ruling against the appeal by the President for a delay in the trial until he is out of office. Certainly, the dignity and sovereignty of the office of the President should not have been allowed to be so terribly besmirched. (THE REV.) RALSTON B. NEMBHARD Orlando...
CONVICTED. MAURICE PAPON, 87, high-ranking functionary in France's wartime Vichy regime; in a grueling six-month trial that dredged up the darkest moments of the country's past; of complicity in crimes against humanity; in Bordeaux, France. Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison...
Democracy has been around for a bit, but the 20th century has been the crucial century of its trial, testing and triumph. At the century's start, democracy was thought to be spreading irresistibly across the world. Then the Great War, the war of 1914-18, showed that democracy could not assure peace. Postwar disillusion activated democracy's two deadly foes: fascism and communism. Soon the Great Depression in the 1930s showed that democracy could not assure prosperity either, and the totalitarian creeds gathered momentum...
Exasperated, the government mounted a massive treason trial against its main opponents, Mandela among them. It dragged on for five years, until 1961, ending in the acquittal of all 156 accused. But by that time the country had been convulsed by the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in March 1960, and the government was intent on crushing all opposition. Most liberation movements, including the A.N.C., were banned. Earning a reputation as the Black Pimpernel, Mandela went underground for more than a year and traveled abroad to enlist support for the A.N.C...
...overlooking the Nile, Abdul Koddus stresses the Brotherhood's desire to adopt the best of Western values. "I ask for political freedom for everybody," he says, rejecting the goal of militant groups to establish an Islamic dictatorship. Yet he believes that British author Salman Rushdie should be put on trial for blasphemy, and he refuses to condemn Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, convicted on terrorism charges in New York City. And there can be no peace with Israel, he adds, so long as the Jewish state occupies Jerusalem...