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...program broadcast in the evening over WTKS-FM in Orlando, Florida, usually concerns itself with "women and beer," as one of the hosts, Russ Rollins, puts it. But on Sept. 25, the show addressed the subject of child abuse, commemorating the death exactly 14 years earlier of Ursula Sunshine Assaid. When she was five years old, Ursula was tortured and killed by her mother's boyfriend, Donald McDougall. The murder still causes bitterness in Orlando, and on the anniversary, the Russ & Bo Show devoted five hours to it. Between phone calls, Rollins graphically described the suffering Ursula endured. Building...
McDougall and Susan Assaid prevented Ursula from eating or drinking for a week, and while Susan stood by, McDougall beat the girl and killed her. He was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 34 years in prison; Susan served five years of a 15-year sentence for manslaughter. Twice since 1992, when the possibility has arisen that McDougall might be allowed to leave prison, Florida has tightened the rules governing the early release of convicts. Last week, however, the Florida Supreme Court overturned those changes. Police officials told TIME that as a result of this decision, McDougall...
Iraq's 1958 revolution, and the body of Premier Nuri asSaid was dismembered. Five years later, another set of revolutionaries displayed the bullet-riddled body of President Abdul Karim Kassem on television. But last week's repulsive spectacle of mass public hangings provoked an international outcry. Pope Paul spoke out against the "abomination" and perceived a suspicion that motives of racism were involved." He had previously appealed to Iraq) for mercy for the condemned men, as had the U.S., Britain, France and Italy. They now condemned the executions as, in the words of Secretary of State William...
Unshared Prize. To Kassem the coup must have seemed only too familiar. In the same way back in 1958, Kassem seized power by ruthlessly slaughtering King Feisal II and his ironfisted, pro-Western Premier, Nuri asSaid, who was caught trying to escape the city dressed in women's clothes. In those days Kassem was a brigadier, with the reputation of being the King's most loyal soldier. Actually, he was leader of a group of army conspirators including mercurial Colonel Abdul Salam Aref, a passionate pro-Nasserite. After the young King was slain, Kassem appointed himself Premier, named...
Most notable beneficiary was Fadhil Jamali, one of the free world's strongest friends in the Middle East, who, as Foreign Minister and U.N. delegate, long represented and spoke for the late great and hated Nuri asSaid. Reported tortured and murdered by a street mob during the bloody 1958 revolution, Jamali turned up bruised but alive in a military jail. Tried as a traitor before Baghdad's infamous People's Court, he was sentenced to hang, a sentence commuted last week to ten years' imprisonment...