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...leading commando raids against n______ in the black neighborhoods." The ammunition that Robertson allegedly handed out was used on the night of July 21, 1969, when a car carrying a black family turned onto Newberry Street by mistake. It had got no more than a block when the driver saw a crowd of up to 200 well-armed whites gathered up the street. In a panic the driver tried to turn the car around but stalled it on railroad tracks--then the demarcation between black and white neighborhoods. Lillie Belle Allen, a mother of two visiting York from South Carolina...
...election he had just lost. His wife, Wu Shu-chen, a narrow-framed woman with a thin face, was walking at the head of the party, Chen was toward the back. A black truck came roaring around a corner and struck Wu, running over her legs. The driver stopped, put the truck in reverse and then backed over her. Chen swears it was a politically motivated attack and that he had been threatened by gangsters during the campaign. He had not heeded the threats, and last-minute vote-buying by the KMT had swayed the election. The hit, Chen...
...credible eyewitness saw McVeigh construct his 2-ton bomb, nor could anyone positively identify him as the driver of the Ryder truck who parked the explosives beneath the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Prosecutors based their case on evidence that showed McVeigh planned the bombing, rented the Ryder truck, moved into a nearby motel to make preparations and bought a 1977 Mercury as a getaway car. The testimony of McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, who admitted to helping McVeigh plan the bombing, and the traces of explosives found on McVeigh's clothing were particularly damning. And McVeigh...
...Officers responded to the Harvard Lampoon after a caller reported an intoxicated driver in a red SUV. When officers spoke with the driver, he did not appear to be intoxicated...
...carmaker's professional managers have had to take the keys away from actual Fords before they did irreparable harm to the business. Ford, 44, became chairman in 1999 only after parrying the objection of his predecessor Alex Trotman, who didn't care to see another Ford in the driver's seat--particularly this one. "I was a heretic," Ford admits. "There were a lot of people saying, 'Let's hope he doesn't get too close to the real business...