Word: denver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Denver, demonstrators with black arm bands protesting capital punishment formed a silent procession in front of the Statehouse, while in Canon City a similarly grim tableau formed alongside the walls of the Colorado State Prison. Inside, Luis Jose Monge calmly prepared to die for the brutal murder in 1963 of his wife and three of his ten children. Resisting a nationwide trend against capital punishment (TIME, April 21), Colorado voters last November voted 2 to 1 to retain the death penalty, and the state was about to execute its 77th prisoner...
...unmarked car filled with walkie-talkie radio equipment and a spaghetti tangle of wires for tape recorders, she waited outside Macy's in Manhattan one afternoon with a chief inspector. In another car parked near by, a second inspector, posing as a black-marketeer known as "Wally from Denver," was scheduled to make an incriminating deal with a genuine crook called "Tom." Wally had been offered a counterfeit version of Upjohn's antidiabetes drug, Orinase. His assignment: to persuade the racketeers to show him their manufacturing plant as proof that they could really deliver him 200,000 doses...
Black-white relations in a slit trench or a combat-bound Huey are years ahead of Denver and Darien, decades ahead of Birmingham and Biloxi. "The only color out here is olive drab," says a white sergeant. Despite the foxhole comradeship of most G.I.s in Viet Nam, the war is not all interracial amity: vicious racist graffiti from both sides mar the walls of latrines in Saigon; whites and Negroes slug it out on occasion along the nighttown streets of Tu Do and in "Soulsville," the Negro's self-imposed ghetto of joy along Saigon's waterfront. Sometimes...
...relieve this depression and "because of obvious social consequences if the pregnancy is not interrupted." Under the old law, no abortion could take place unless it was proved that the mother's life was endangered; last week the operation - the first under the new law-was performed at Denver's Presbyterian Medical Center. This week the second abortion is scheduled to be performed on a twelve-year-old girl, raped 16 weeks ago, who is described by psychiatrists as having suffered "significant mental injury...
Similar legislation has died or been pigeonholed in a dozen states this year as a result of church opposition, mainly from Roman Catholics. Colorado's bill was carefully steered through the lower house by Denver Representative Richard D. Lamm, who kept the debate as unemotional as possible, relying on research prepared by the American Lutheran Church. Lamm gave Catholic opponents a quick history lesson...