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EXECUTED. Robert Austin Sullivan, 36, convicted murderer; by electrocution, despite clemency pleas from seven Florida bishops and Pope John Paul II; at the state penitentiary in Starke, Fla. Sullivan was found guilty of the 1973 slaying of the night manager of a restaurant outside Miami. Although he first confessed to the crime, Sullivan later recanted. His cause was then taken up by priests who counseled him in prison. Sullivan's execution was the ninth in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted the ban on capital punishment...
Nonetheless, some industry experts think companies will be forced to cut prices by the brisk business in home-video rentals. Asks Chaz Austin, a cassette retailer in Los Angeles: "Who in his right mind is going to pay $80 for a movie that you can rent for $5?" Some video shops now rent 100 tapes for every one sold...
...percent approved of the American invasion. However, these figures do not translate into support for a center-right Western government. From its birth in March 1979, Bishop's leftist New Jewel movement enjoyed widespread popularity. With Bishop's assassination, Grenadians feared the prospect of Cuban domination under General Hudson Austin. Ironically, if free elections were held today, a center-left government--the type Reagan so ardently opposed--would probably...
Alpha M. Wiggins Austin...
...leaders in hiding who, many felt, had betrayed the revolution. Marines ringed the house in which Coard and his wife Phyllis had taken refuge. Only when a U.S. officer began a loud countdown, threatening to open fire on the building, did the two emerge and were taken into custody. Austin was holed up in a palatial coastal resort that once was a haven for the island's leading capitalists. He fell for a ruse by Grenadian intelligence agents who pretended to accept his offered bribe of $2,000 to take him by boat to the neighboring island of Carriacou...