James M. McHaney; Prosecutor of Nazis

James M. McHaney, 76, a key prosecutor in war crimes trials at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II. McHaney was an assistant to Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, the chief American prosecutor, when 23 German doctors, scientists and medical administrators accused of crimes against humanity went on trial Dec. 9, 1946, before four American judges. McHaney presented much of the evidence to the court, using a 10-by-12-foot chart on which he outlined the accusations against the Germans. McHaney read to the court many of the meticulous records that the doctors and scientists had kept of their experiments. Sixteen of the defendants were convicted, and seven of them were hanged. On April 13 in Little Rock, Ark., of arteriosclerosis.