Word: witnessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The allegations were presented at a three-day hearing in New York City held by the President's Commission on Organized Crime. Led by Federal Judge Irving Kaufman, it was created in July of last year to investigate, publicize and suggest ways to lessen the impact of organized crime...
The book's most affecting passages concern the tortured destiny of Shostakovich, whose servility to the Soviet authorities Vishnevskaya defends with the ferocity of friendship. She was not old enough in 1936 to understand the humiliation heaped on the composer when Stalin took exception to his opera Lady Macbeth...
The Agrava board's legal staff based its argument in large part on the startling discrepancies between shards of evidence-mostly photographs, audio recordings and videotapes made on the fateful afternoon-and the well-rehearsed military account, recited by a parade of soldiers both on and off the witness...
The central and most sensitive point for the board is the involvement of General Ver in the conspiracy. When he took the witness stand in April, Ver admitted under questioning by General Counsel Narvasa that the intelligence community was kept regularly informed of Aquino's activities in the U.S...
To win an indictment, the prosecutor must convince at least a majority of a grand jury - usually no more than 23 citizens - that there is reason to believe that the accused committed specified crimes. In principle, the grand jury is supposed to serve as a check on unfounded charges and...