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...Broomis and the eleven other jurors, the ordeal of Case No. 233421 ended last week. The seven men and five women decreed that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, should be put to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin...
...Harsh. Having reached the first-degree murder verdict the previous week, the panel, under California law, had to decide on Sirhan's punishment. The defense and prosecution made brief pleas, after which the jury spent eleven hours and 45 minutes deciding Sirhan's fate. "I know he premeditated the murder with malice," said Broomis, "but I still thought the death penalty was too harsh." Four formal ballots were taken, but life imprisonment never received more than three votes. Finally, unanimity was achieved. George A. Stitzel, a pressroom foreman for the Los Angeles Times, reported later: "One item that...
France responded to this romantic view of herself in moments of national crisis; then it was comforting to have so impassioned a lover as De Gaulle ready and willing to serve. But eleven years of calls to greatness are too much for a nation, or a woman. De Gaulle had even been warned. During World War II, when France had been humiliatingly crushed in a six-week Nazi blitzkrieg, De Gaulle almost single-handed kept the idea of France alive. Whenever Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin tried to shape the war without due consideration of France, they were met with...
...elite corps of the Counter-Reformation more than 400 years ago, the Jesuits have been the Pope's Own. But even their privileged position has not kept them immune from the present dissension and turmoil in the Roman Catholic Church. Last week Father Marius Schoenenberger, 49, one of eleven regional assistants who are part of the "Jesuit curia" under Father-General Pedro Arrupe, announced that he was asking to leave the order. He is the highest-ranking Jesuit ever to quit the society...
With a history almost parallel to Ignacio's, senior Dorwart finished last season in tremendous form with a 2-1 eleven inning loss to Southern Illinois in the NCAA World Series. Early this year however, Dorwart completed only one of his first four starts and his ERA soared...