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...jurors deliberated for seven days and voted at least twelve times before reaching their decision. They acknowledged afterward that they were swayed ultimately by the self-defense plea. Added Mandulay: "We do not condone the actions of any of these groups." The Justice Department is already investigating the case to determine whether the acquitted defendants can now be charged with civil rights violations. This sort of follow-up prosecution is used by the department on occasion, but it requires pinpointing some federally guaranteed civil right -for example, voting, interstate travel or the use of a public accommodation-that the defendants...
...Begin flew back to Israel and rushed straight to the Knesset, where a seven-hour debate on his economic policies was already under way. As the gallery buzzed with excitement, a roll call of the Knesset kept Begin in power by the slimmest margin yet, 57 to 54. Afterward he tried to be philosophical: "As Winston Churchill used to say, in a democracy, one [vote] is enough...
...relationship" they had had. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in turn, praised Carter's "friendship, help and candor." The words were the warmest that the two men had spoken publicly about each other during four years of an intensely strained relationship. Said one of Schmidt's aides afterward: "They are probably both glad they won't see each other again...
...discovered to have spent a weekend at one of the royal residences. The press descended en masse on the Chelsea travel agency where she worked. "Get rid of them and don't come back at all if you can't," warned her angry boss. Said a relative afterward: "It was as if she had been found guilty of some ghastly sexual crime or murder or robbery...
...with an empty head who doesn't bother anybody," is the bitter comment of one of the 30% Rushnell removed. "If you told her to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, she'd ask what time she should be there and when the limousine would pick her up afterward...