Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes of Bowden's 33-year-old widow, Patricia, the case was not closed. Insisting that her husband was an innocent victim, she shopped for a lawyer willing to help her take on the police department and finally found Lawrence O'Donnell, 59, a onetime patrolman with a penchant for bold courtroom tactics and underdog clients (among them: three of the Brink's robbers). "He's a tiger," says one court official who has observed him over the years. "When he gets something in his teeth, he never lets go." For O'Donnell, Bowden...
DIED. Nadezhda Mandelstam, 81, doughty widow of the major Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who preserved her husband's work after his death in a concentration camp in 1938, making possible the 1974 publication of a small selection of his poetry in the Soviet Union; of heart disease; in Moscow. Her own memoirs, Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), powerful chronicles of life in Stalinist Russia, had to be smuggled out of the U.S.S.R. to be published...
...comes under direct attack, along with his widow...
...court went into an unexplained recess, leaving the debate phase to be finished later, possibly this week. Meanwhile, speculation swirled around a particular question: Why would Peking's current leaders have decided to step up the level of attacks on Mao even before the trial of his widow was finished? One possible explanation is that the ascendant faction led by Senior Vice Chairman Deng Ziaoping may not be opposed to an unofficial linking of the "mistakes" of Mao with the "crimes" of the Gang of Four. The pragmatic Deng seems to have decided that a thoroughgoing de-Maoization...
...accused. Since most of the defendants have already admitted their "counterrevolutionary crimes," the lawyers' role had been reduced to pointing out the defendants' contrite attitude and asking for lenient sentences. The main exception to that pattern is likely to be Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, who in her last court appearance was hustled from the chamber after she angrily attacked both a witness and a judge as "liars" and "traitors." When it comes her turn to make her defense, possibly this week, Jiang Qing is almost certain to make a highly embarrassing claim: that all her allegedly...