environment. The sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces and other living things, which provide conditions for development and growth as well as of danger and damage.
Under subpoena in 1948, he testified in what became Alger Hiss's perjury (espionage) trials (1949â1950) and he became an outspoken anti-communist (all described in his 1952 memoir Witness). Afterwards, he worked briefly as a senior editor at National Review (1957â1959). President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
2005 - At the start of June the Iraqi Government indicates that Saddam's trial will focus on 12-14 fully documented cases, including the execution of 148 people from the village of Dujayl near Baghdad following an attempt to assassinate Saddam there on 8 July 1982.