Word: beaufort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mutiny within Lebanon's 18,000-man army, which long was almost the sole national institution to remain generally above the confessional conflict. Now it is being split into antagonistic Moslem and Christian factions. Hundreds of Moslem soldiers deserted and took over army garrisons. Among them was Beaufort Castle-a massive stone fortress built 900 years ago by French Crusaders -which is within artillery range of settlements inside Israel. Many of the deserting Moslem troops were believed to be sympathetic to the Palestinian guerrillas, and there were fears last week that they might fire across the border-thereby provoking...
...broke down in tears only once. Otherwise, Joan Little remained remarkably self-possessed through two days of painful testimony and crossexamination, sticking stoutly to her story that she had been defending herself from rape when she stabbed white Jailer Clarence Alligood to death with an ice pick in the Beaufort County Jail in Washington...
...tension stems from conflicting theories of why Joan (5 ft. 3 in., 120 lbs.) stabbed Jailer Clarence Alligood (5 ft. 8 in., 200 lbs.) eleven times with an ice pick in the Beaufort County jail in Washington, N.C. (pop. 9,000), on Aug. 27, 1974. Joan, her lawyers and a spontaneous coalition of feminists, civil rights and prison-reform advocates insist that she was defending herself against rape by her 62-year-old white jailkeeper. To them, this is a classic example of the way rape victims can be railroaded by male-dominated legal systems, and of how black women...
...Company. No one denies that Joan had recently fallen into bad company. Born along the Pamlico River in rural Beaufort County, she was the oldest of nine children; her parents were divorced while she was young. She attended high school in South Orange, N.J., and Philadelphia, where she had relatives. She returned to Washington to get her diploma, but quit when school officials insisted that she repeat a year. She worked as a sheet-rock finisher, making up to $275 a week, but was arrested twice in 1973 on charges that included shoplifting and carrying a concealed rifle...
...brother Jerome and charged with stealing $850 worth of property from two mobile homes. Jerome turned state's evidence and got a three-year sentence; Joan later admitted her guilt but still received a stiff seven to ten years in prison. She had spent 81 days in the Beaufort jail, awaiting transfer to a women's correctional institution, when the killing occurred...