Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mobsters were overheard deploring the 1962 hand-grenade slaying of "Cadillac Charlie" Cavallaro in Youngstown, Ohio, because the blast also killed the victim's eleven-year...
...acquit August or to find him guilty of first-degree murder, with a mandatory life sentence. The judge reasoned that the prosecution's contentions ruled out manslaughter or second-degree murder. The all-or-nothing choice, however, made conviction more difficult. After two hours and 50 minutes, the eleven women and one man voted for acquittal. Pollard's mother, Rebecca, wept bitterly: "I didn't look for them to find him guilty. All whites stick together...
...that Biafra's boss referred to-14 Italians, three West Germans and a Lebanese -were employees of the Italian government's oil combine, ENI. They were captured last month by Biafran troops in the Okpai oilfields near Port Harcourt in an encounter in which eleven other oil workers (ten Italians and a Jordanian) were killed. Later a five-man Biafran tribunal that sits for security cases condemned the 18 prisoners to death by firing squad for helping Nigeria wage war. Once the sentences were announced, Ojukwu was besieged by clemency pleas from Italy, West Germany, Portugal, Gabon...
...positions and of leading Nigerian forces. Other sources related the incident differently. A Nigerian watchman in the oil camp, who survived by hiding under a truck, maintained that Biafran commandos attacked the camp in a surprise dawn raid. They sprayed it with automatic-weapons fire and shot down the eleven who were killed as they emerged from their bunkhouses to see what was happening...
According to a 50-state survey, conducted for TIME by the National Education Association, most legislatures have ignored the reasons for student protest in favor of simply halting it. At least eleven states have passed new laws aimed at curbing campus disruptions, although not all the bills have yet been signed by the respective Governors. These states are Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and South Carolina, where the bill provides for the immediate expulsion of disrupters after a hearing. Oklahoma's law (now signed) specifies that persons convicted of inciting riots can be imprisoned...