Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After months of damning testimony against him, Demjanjuk, 67, a retired Cleveland autoworker, last week took the stand in his own defense for the first time. Throughout four days of grueling examination in a Jerusalem courtroom, Demjanjuk never wavered from his claim that he is a victim of mistaken identity. Israeli prosecutors contend that he was the sadistic guard named Ivan who tended the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp, where 850,000 Jews were slain. If convicted, he could be hanged under Israeli law. Demjanjuk was deported to Israel after U.S. officials concluded he had lied...
Demjanjuk's defense has not been helped by constant squabbling among his U.S. and Israeli lawyers. Nor have their tactics impressed the court. When Israeli Defense Attorney Yoram Sheftel argued that his client was the victim of a KGB conspiracy, he was interrupted by Judge Dalia Dorner. Said she: "All that I can say to you is that if this is your line of defense, then you really have a very, very severe problem...
...factor that has stymied investigators is the transient status of most of the victims. Many had few family ties; many were last seen alive hustling on the Sea-Tac strip, a three-mile stretch near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Cindy Anne Smith, for example, was, according to authorities, a runaway at 13 who sometimes supported herself as a topless dancer. Another victim, 15-year-old Carrie Ann Rois, was a streetwalker for three months before she disappeared...
...Harvard police department has established a fund in behalf of a University security guard who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident earlier this month...
Unfortunately, Rusty is also given to occasional delusions of Dostoyevsky. "I have seen so much," he begins at one point, brooding over his liaison with the murder victim, and then recites a litany of misery, concluding, "The lights go out, grow dim. And a soul can stand only so much darkness. I reached for Carolyn." As excuses for adultery go, Rusty's sounds more than a little pretentious...