Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most important thing the strikers gained is a sense of resolute patience. "Back then, we thought we could go to Washington and watch the White House burn," recalls Judith E. Tucker '69, a former member of SDS and a graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies here now. "We didn't have a whole lot of political savvy. Now we know that change is going to come but it's going to come real slowly...
...night of drinking and arguing ended for Leonard Roberts and Robert Melton in a liquor-store parking lot outside the coal-mining town of Hazard, Ky., when Roberts pulled out his gun and fatally shot Melton. The incident was not unusual in the isolated, often violent hills of eastern Kentucky. Nor was the reaction of Melton's father Carl, 70. He wanted revenge, which is considered almost a family duty in a part of the world where blood feuds can last for generations. But instead of taking the old route of getting a gun and going outside...
Known as "special prosecutors," private lawyers are widely used in Kentucky to assist state prosecutors, especially in murder cases. "There's a feeling in eastern Kentucky that if someone in your family is killed, you're not going to be shamed in the eyes of the rest of the community by not having your own attorney," says Charles Coy, a Richmond, Ky., lawyer who has been hired several times as a special prosecutor. The state prosecutors do not mind, since they are often hamstrung by a lack of resources. The commonwealth attorney for Perry County, where the Melton...
...double-loss left the Crimson at 3-3 in the Eastern League, making a sweep of Harvard's nine remaining league contests necessary for any shot at the league crown Penn swept Dartmouth at Hanover Saturday to up its league-leading record...
...Crimson's two convincing wins this year, the first coming in the San Diego Crew Classic, set the stage for a confrontation with Yale, also undefeated, in the Eastern Sprints...