Word: tribunales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The next day a makeshift tribunal consisting of five mullahs was set up in a corner of the prison yard. They sent a few new prisoners to the execution squads before my time came for interrogation. One of the clergymen asked me whether I remembered where my brother was. When...
Congress delegates also voted to hold a "people's" tribunal against several former government officials they blame for Poland's "downfall," if Communist authorities do not prosecute them within the year.
Stung by worldwide condemnation of the seaside executions in April 1980 that followed his ouster of President William R. Tolbert, Liberia's new head of state, Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, promised a quick return to civilian rule and a halt to the killings. Seventeen months later, Doe, 30...
Some experts see the current court as a transitional tribunal poised between the social activism of the distinctly liberal Warren court and whatever might lie ahead. Despite four appointments made by Richard Nixon and one by Gerald Ford, the Burger bench has retreated surprisingly little from the pioneering decisions on...
The way was thus cleared for the release of $2.3 billion in Iranian assets still held in U.S. banks-the last of the estimated $12 billion that Carter had frozen during the hostage crisis. Of the newly freed assets, $1.3 billion will now return to Iran. The remaining $1 billion...