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...mayor admitted inexpressible "disappointment" and "anguish" at the verdict. The superior-court jury was sequestered almost seven days before reaching its verdict, largely because it found confronting the evidence a "painful experience," as Juror Karen Dyer put it. In the end, the panel concluded that Hedgecock had 1) conspired to allow some $360,000 in illicit funds to be channeled into his 1983 campaign, and 2) lied over and over to cover up the scheme. The prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Charles Wickersham, said that what clinched the verdict was a check for $3,000 made out to Hedgecock...
...growing awareness of the vast scope of the toxic-waste problem has bred much public anguish but precious little remedial action. The Office of Technology Assessment, a research arm of Congress, contends that there may be at least 10,000 hazardous-waste sites in the U.S. that pose a serious threat to public health and that should be given priority in any national cleanup. The cost, OTA estimates, could easily reach $100 billion, or more than $1,000 per U.S. household. Eventually, predicts the General Acccounting Office, which also does studies for Congress, more than 378,000 waste sites...
Beyond the widespread anguish caused by the quake, there was also deep concern in Mexico over the economic implications of the disaster. Already burdened with severe economic problems (see box), the nation was struck a savage blow. "There will be an immense cost," predicted Clemente Ruiz Duran, an economist and former official of Mexico's central bank. Reconstruction must await the end of the effort to rescue survivors. While cranes and heavy earthmoving equipment were scarce, federal and municipal officials moved swiftly after the blow came. The National Defense Secretariat activated a standing plan for just such an emergency, mobilizing...
...offers of outside assistance, the burden as well as the suffering could, of course, be borne only by Mexico's grieving millions. Yet amid all the pain and the anguish caused by the great quake, Mexicans had reason to be proud of the way in which they reacted to the disaster. One of the few uplifting results of last week's tragedy was the determination with which the military, civilian officials and thousands of volunteers pitched in to the agonizing task of seeking signs of life among the rubble and recovering the bodies of those who were beyond help...
...respond publicly to the kidnapers' demands. The President, meanwhile, acknowledged his personal agony. "If those who oversaw this terrible deed sought to torment a father who is President of the republic, they have succeeded," he told an Independence Day gathering in San Salvador. "They have also provoked the anguish of a mother, the despairing tears of small children, the pain of the people and the shock of civilized nations." At week's end his daughter's whereabouts remained a mystery...