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The council was considering passing a resolution calling for a stay of execution for Abu-Jamal and demanding that a new and fair trial be held for him.
The Cambridge City Council held its last meeting of the summer last night, beginning with a 4 p.m. hearing on traffic and safety issues, and addressing issues ranging from an upcoming execution in Pennsylvania to today's `Night Out Against Crime' at Rindge Field in Cambridge.
The public discussion focused on the current status of Black journalist and community activist Mumia Abu-Jabal's execution date. Abu-Jamal faces the death penalty for killing a white Philadelphia police officer in 1981.
In those years Christians were also a breakaway Jewish faction, still hoping to persuade other Jews that Jesus was the Messiah, though he appeared to have died in defeat. It was to account for Christ's arrest and execution, Pagels believes, that the Gospel writers framed the life of Jesus...
The National Security Agency unwrapped one of its oldest secrets -- Project Venona, a World War II code-breaking effort that cracked Soviet cables and revealed the existence of an extensive spy network in the U.S. to steal classified nuclear information. Among the members of the Soviet ring apparently identified in...