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...dimmed cabin light, his dark, impassive face seemed enlivened only by his big, shiny, compelling eyes. Suddenly, the plane shuddered in a pocket of severe turbulence. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion and said: "I guess that's Birmingham down below...
...reminder of Vulcan's city set King to talking quietly of the events of 1963. "In 1963," he said, "there arose a great Negro disappointment and disillusionment and discontent. It was the year of Birmingham, when the civil rights issue was impressed on the nation in a way that nothing else before had been able to do. It was the most decisive year in the Negro's fight for equality. Never before had there been such a coalition of conscience on this issue...
Bull Connor thought he knew a thing or two about power. In May 1963 the public-safety commissioner of Birmingham, Ala., was ready to use water cannons and attack dogs on a group of civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The protesters responded in a way Connor found hard to fathom--they knelt in the street and prayed. "Let them turn their water on," said one. "Let them use their dogs. We are not leaving. Forgive them." Connor gave the order to mow down the marchers, and television beamed the scene to a horrified world...
...BIRMINGHAM: Eric Robert Rudolph, the abortion clinic bombing suspect on the run from the FBI somewhere in the moutains of North Carolina, has just become three times the fugitive. Steel plates used in the Alabama bombings and bombs at the Olympics and at an Atlanta abortion clinic have been traced to Rudolph through steel plates cut at a plant where a friend of Rudolph's works, FBI officials are saying...
...Unfortunately, Rudolph is no closer to custody than he was four weeks ago, when he fled his house upon learning the FBI had named him as a suspect. "The agents here are acknowledging that he won't be caught anytime soon," says TIME reporter Greg Fulton from Birmingham. "But now that the other two bombs are part of the case, Washington's going to have to start dealing with the media -- beginning with why Rudolph's name was put out." Fulton says the Birmingham team expects the Washington FBI to hold a press conference soon...