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...pitched their whole case on insanity rather than asking for mercy or leniency, and so the jury probably subconsciously got the idea it was either insanity or death," said Wade. "It was as weak a case of psychiatric defense as I've seen." Did Wade think Dallas' civic reputation was cleared by the verdict? The prosecutor said: "I don't think Dallas was on trial. I don't think I was on trial. I don't think Mr. Belli was on trial. I think Jack Ruby, who shot a man while he was handcuffed...
...with civic action, Ruiz has mounted a military offensive built around 100 mobile, twelve-man "killer" teams from the "Laceros," or Lancers, the army's crack fighting force. In some villages, the military investigates every citizen, questions unarmed strangers, shoots on sight any armed newcomers. Many of Ruiz' patrols are disguised as civilians, inviting bandit attack; army undercover men infiltrate bandit gangs, lead them into ambush. Colombian pilots, who have learned air envelopment tactics in the U.S., are equipped with scores of choppers...
...easily the most exciting city in West Germany, largely because it is a young city. More than half of its 1,160,000 inhabitants are under 40, and 89% have yet to reach 65. Its lord mayor, 38-year-old Hans-Jochen Vogel, is West Germany's youngest civic leader, and Julius Cardinal Döpfner, at 50, is one of Roman Catholicism's leading liberals and youngest princes. Youth means vigor, and with an 8% annual economic-growth rate, Munich is the most vigorous city in the Bundesrepublik...
Military "civic action" is spreading. Colombian air force engineers are hacking out jungle highways; army troops are detailed to remote villages to build schools and clinics, dig wells and paint houses. Other armies-in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela-have also established public-works beachheads in the boondocks. "The role of the military," says Lieut. Colonel Alvaro Baquero, Satena's general manager, "is not only to defend the nation, but also to help...
...city's No. 1 booster for four decades; after a long illness; in Dallas. The son of a tenant cotton farmer who built a tiny mortgage business into the $450 million Mercantile National Bank (one of Dallas' Big Three), Thornton was head of a host of civic organizations that helped bring in the Dallas Symphony, the 1935 Texas Centennial, and an annual state fair the likes of which even Texans had never seen...