Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally, his 1983 expulsion from Bolivia to stand trial in France. Unexpectedly, Barbie asked Cerdini for permission to read a statement. "I am being held here illegally," said the defendant without emotion, referring to his oft-repeated contention that he was unlawfully expelled from Bolivia. "I am the victim of a kidnaping . . . I'm not a prisoner, but a hostage." Then he stunned onlookers by refusing to submit further to the judicial proceedings. Said Barbie: "I have no intention of appearing again before this court. I ask you to return me to St. Joseph Prison...
...civil plaintiffs loudly protested the move by Barbie, who is accused of committing atrocities against French Jews and Resistance fighters while he was head of the Gestapo in Lyons between 1942 and 1944. "You should remain and look into the eyes of the people you tortured!" cried a victim from the gallery. "But you refuse. You are a coward." Shouted a lawyer representing some plaintiffs: "Klaus Barbie is making a mockery of justice!" Said another: "I represent 6 million victims who cannot represent themselves...
Before his surprise exit on the third day of the trial, Barbie spent most of his time in court listening without expression to a recitation of his % alleged crimes. His flamboyant lawyer, Jacques Verges, heatedly argued that his client was a victim of double jeopardy because in 1952 and 1954 he had already been convicted in absentia of war crimes and sentenced to death. Judge Cerdini will rule later on the claim. Barbie, now charged with "crimes against humanity," including the deportation of 44 Jewish children from a village near Lyons to Auschwitz, told the court his prosecution was "like...
...countdown started around midnight at Baltimore's University of Maryland Hospital. At that hour doctors began the delicate task of removing the heart and lungs from a 32-year-old victim of a car accident declared brain dead several hours earlier. Working swiftly, they excised the organs, chilled them to 45 degrees F and transported them across town to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Clinton House, 28, a refrigeration mechanic whose lungs were ravaged by cystic fibrosis, had been summoned from his home and was being wheeled into the operating room. He had waited a year for this moment. In a room...
...what Surgeon Bruce Reitz later described as a "very dramatic cavity" in his chest. The doctors had decided it was simpler and safer to replace both the heart and lungs rather than the lungs alone. As Reitz's team began implanting the heart and lungs taken from the accident victim, House's heart was rushed into the next room, where Surgeon William Baumgartner sutured it piggyback over Couch's own ailing heart. By 10 a.m. the exhausted physicians had completed their tasks and made American medical history. It marked the first time in the U.S. that a living individual...