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...left his fate in the hands of a ten-woman, two-man Broward County jury. No one was more surprised than he when it returned after four hours of deliberation with a first- degree murder verdict. "I still don't feel like I committed a crime," Gilbert said afterward. "This just shows that the laws have to be changed...
...have been left bitter by years of public indifference. Ex-Marine Jerry White, 35, could not accept it as a thank-you. Said he: "It's more like a political convention or something." Army Veteran John-Paul Body, 36, took part only reluctantly, wary of "romanticizing the war." Afterward he dipped into the vocabulary of psychospiritualism to offer his appraisal: "It was more like an exorcism." Still, no matter how dark or ambiguous their emotions, few seemed to disagree with the end-of-the-show assessment that came from ex-Army Specialist Lester Modelowitz, 38. "Nothing will ever make...
...White House fully intends to raise the contra aid issue in Congress again, perhaps in two to three weeks. Increasingly uneasy as they pondered Ortega's East bloc journey, Democrats led by House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill met late last week to consider that prospect. Afterward, O'Neill reiterated his opposition to direct contra aid and pronounced the embargo to be premature. "Economic embargoes," said the Speaker, "should follow the failure of diplomacy rather than following the failure of the Reagan Administration to get its way in Congress." Nonetheless, as the impact of Ortega's Moscow pilgrimage continued...
...take a while." It did, and as his committee unraveled cold-blooded conspiracies on live television day after day, self-consciously Southern Senator Sam, by turns puckish and preachy, helped reassure Americans that there were still people in Washington with moral bearings solidly fixed. He retired from politics soon afterward and spent the past decade down home in Morganton, making forays out to lecture and to film an American Express commercial. Ervin, 88, died in North Carolina last week of respiratory failure brought on by a combination of ailments...
...walkout by power workers, who feared losing their jobs to outside contractors. Clergymen and civil rights and labor activists, who see the legislation as a threat to Australian unionism, have joined in the protests. Recently the unions blockaded the state's transportation links for 24 hours. Sir Joh afterward attacked the unions as a "bloodthirsty lot trying to grind down the community." Said he: "They do not realize their days of threatening and bullying people in this state are over...