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While his legal strategist was teaching classes at the Law School yesterday, Danish aristocrat Claus von Bulow began his long-awaited retrial trying Providence on charges of twice trying to murder his heiress wife...
Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz will direct the von Bulow defense from his Law School office, keeping tabs on a three-ring circus of a trial that has all the makings of a cheap courtroom novel: lust, greed, syringes, an heiress' fortune, a bitter maid, and vindictive step-children...
Dershowitz, however, will hear about most of the excitement over the phone. "I'm a professor first and a lawyer second," he said yesterday The outspoken Dershowitz will plan strategy and consult daily with the von Bulow defense team, but will leave most of the courtroom trial work to New York attorney Thomas Puccio...
Dershowitz was not involved in the much-bally hooed, five-week 1982 trial, when Von Bulow was convicted of attempting to kill his wife, Pittsburgh utilities heiress and New port socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, by injecting her with insulin injections...
...stockpiles of chemical weapons-- and none at all that mustard gas had severely injured the Iranians taken to Western Europe. Doctors treating the men reported burns and blisters of the skin, lung lesions that inhibit breathing, and chemical traces of the gas in body fluids. Said Burn Specialist Max von Karlmann of the Isar Right- Bank Clinic in Munich: "The clinical picture shows clear evidence of injury inflicted by mustard...